He criticized how police in both his department and nationally are behaving, enforcing orders he considers wrong. THAT is his “family” as defined by the Godfather quote.
The code of the Godfather is the code of how capitalism and reality work. You do that and there is a price to pay. Period. He did. And he is.
The Founders knew there was a price to be paid. They understood that technically speaking they were committing an act of treason, and if they lost the war they would be killed. “We Must Hang Together Or Surely We Shall Hang Separately” is the quote of somebody who knows they’re breaking the Godfather rule even though that movie was 200 years in the future. They understood there would be ramifications. Which is all I’m saying.
His family is the US constitution and it’s people, not a police department. And the Godfather code is not capitalism... it is the code of the thief and murderer. Despite hit movies, that is all the mafia is.
Mafia is the very pure essence of the parasite, not of the capitalist. The only relationship of the Godfather to capitalism is that of the host and the blood sucking leech.
I think he probably knew he would be fired.