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Mayor Whitmire beat Yale grad, onetime (gag) Cong Sheila Jackson Lee.
I think he’s the guy that told the antipolice crowd to sign up and they could show him a better way to enforce the law.
I don’t think he should have resigned, but he was in a no-win position. They city council cuts back on your funding, so you can only investigate half the calls but the mayor demands your reason why you can’t investigate all the calls.
Maybe if you live in a town of 3,000 with a chief and five policemen...what ‘numbers’/statistics they talk about....probably are true. In all of the top 100 metro-cities in the US, if you dug into it....none of their statistics are reliable.
But it’s not just them...you need to talk about prosecutors/DA’s, and their statistics as well.
I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Mayor Whitmire beat Yale grad, onetime (gag) Cong Sheila Jackson Lee.
Police chief Troy Finner has resigned after emails obtained by a local news outlet appear to show that he knew about massive failures in the police department well before he said he did. Within hours of issuing a statement about the findings, he resigned.
In February, Finner first announced that the Houston Police Department dropped 264,000 crime reports, including violent crimes and sexual assaults, which weren’t investigated because a “lack of personnel” code was assigned to them,
Systemic.
I live in Harris County (and worked for the sheriff’s office for a bit). You don’t want to live in within the HPD jurisdiction. - Inside the beltway for the most part
He won’t be following the trajectory of the incompetent Lee Brown who kept getting bumped up from office to office or the buffoon Willie L. Williams who replaced Daryl Gates.
ya know it may all, across the board, be as simple as they/we dont have the facilities to lock up “THAT” amount of people in any givin area...
Houston - too close to New Orleans.
20 years (almost) ago Houston got thousands of displaced democrats from
New Orleans after the Katrina debacle.
Add to that the cultural enrichment they’ve gotten from uncontrolled illegal
immigrants.
Houston - we have a problem.
Houston - D.I.E.
Too easy for a cop to lose his career over a fake incident.
The Chief fell on his sword
One can only wonder if he had gathered an adequate surplus for retirement
Right. For example, the Pittsburgh police recently announced that they will not be responding to a whole list of crimes. Burglary in progress? Police will be sent. Burglar has already left? They’ll just take a report over the phone.
People will soon get the idea that it’s not worth making the 911 call. Presto, crime is down.
“The interest is up and the stock market’s down
And you only get mugged if you go downtown”
Guessed right, AGAIN!
“Houston Police Chief Troy Finner”
Another affirmative action Hire success story. /s/
Most of the time, your safety depends largely on the like-minded civility of your fellow community members.
I’m amazed at citizens, who are shocked that crime would intrude on their lives.
Many crimes are crimes of opportunity and you should always be aware that they can happen to you anytime and anywhere.
Cops can’t be there when you need them. So, become proficient and carry concealed like the crooks do.
I wonder how much of the force is DEI, quota hires, and affirmative action.