Houston residents! 🚨 Have you or someone you know filed a case with the Houston Police Department? 🚓 Make sure to check if your case has been suspended due to a lack of personnel. 😱 Over 200,000 cases have been suspended, including more than 4,000 incidents of sexual assault.
– The Houston Police Department has received a lot of backlash after admitting to suspending more than 200,000 cases due to a
On Feb. 22, Finner announced the internal review that revealed at least 4,017 sexual assault cases were suspended under the code. Those cases will be the If you don’t have your incident report number, HPD should be able to look up your case using your personal information or ID number.Since the “SL” coded cases were made public, Finner is conducting and internal investigation into the suspended cases. Also, in wake of learning that Finner may have known about the suspended cases since 2021, newly-elected Houston Mayor John Whitmire is also conducting his own independent investigation into the Houston Police Department and the scandal.
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