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Houston Police Chief admits 264,000 abandoned cases - What's Your Point?

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Published  March 3, 2024 11:06am CST
What's Your Point?
FOX 26 Houston

Houston police under fire for 264,000 abandoned cases

Over eight years, Houston police abandoned over 264,000 criminal cases, leaving a quarter million victims without justice or even a notification of the lack of effort.

Houston - At least 264,000 criminal cases were kicked to the curb and simply abandoned over the course of eight years.

 At least a quarter million victims seeking accountability from criminals for injury and loss were never even told that "zero" effort was made by Houston police to deliver them a measure of justice.

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 This fundamental "dereliction of duty" is genuinely "breathtaking" in scope...and has rattled an already tattered belief that peace officers in our city are delivering an acceptable level of public safety.

As we wait for Police Chief Troy Finner to deliver the ugly specifics, many in the nation’s fourth-largest city are feeling the same sense of betrayal expressed by Councilman Julian Ramirez. 

What a colossal mess left for Mayor John Whitmire by his predecessor Sylvester Turner....and had my colleague Jeremy Rolgowski not unearthed this wholesale shelving of criminal cases....it's my belief it would still be going on.

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