The chief of the Houston Police Department retired abruptly amid an investigation into more than 260,000 incident reports since 2016 that were not investigated, including sexual assaults and other felonies, because of a “lack of personnel.”
The departure of the chief, Troy Finner, was announced by Mayor John Whitmire during a City Council meeting on Wednesday. He praised the chief and called him a “friend" but said that “new information” related to the suspended cases was distracting the Police Department.
The Houston Police Department has been under intense scrutiny since February, when the chief announced a review of more than 4,000 sexual assault cases that had been suspended because of a purported lack of personnel to pursue investigations. That inquiry soon ballooned to include a large number of felonies as well as misdemeanors, which had been given the same internal code — “SL” — meaning they had been suspended for personnel reasons.
Yet another glaring example of how our police and their commanders are unaccountable for their malfeasance and clear dereliction of their duties at the untold cost to the victims of their determined and concerted actions to obviate local laws.
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the chief did nothing wrong in ignoring thousands of felonies, and not raising an alarm on inadequate detective resources. It's only a question of all this talk being a "distraction" - everyone knows distraction is a key obstacle to effective law enforcement.
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