The Houston Police Department set aside over 261,000 incident reports starting in 2016, and they still don't have the answers people want to know.
The Houston Police Department set aside over 261,000 incident reports starting in 2016, and they still don't have the answers people want to know. More than 261,000 incident reports were set aside since 2016 as part of a now widely condemned policy that was started by someone the mayor and police chief still won't identify. It's a massive number, 10% of all cases filed over the past eight years, and there are still a lot of questions about how the department got here and what happens now.
They invited Eyewitness News and other media to watch as officers reviewed reports and reached out to victims. Both the police chief and mayor stood united, flanked by sex assault survivor advocates, as they slammed the now-canceled policy. "The way they handled it was about as bad as you can handle something," Mayor John Whitmire said. "To come up with a code to say you're not going to invest the resources because you're understaffed, give me a break. If that person was still in the department, he or she would have a different experience
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