Houston Police Chief Troy Finner has released some new information regarding criminal cases that were suspended.
Last week, Finner identified 4,017 cases of alleged sexual assault administratively suspended for "lack of personnel" - investigations essentially kicked to the curb back to 2016.SUGGESTED: Houston police chief says 4,000 rape investigations were 'suspended', pledges justice"Am I proud about this? No, I'm angry, okay, because I know we are better, and we are going to make it right, and we will make it right.
8 million incident reports filed with HPD in the past eight years. Of those 264,000 reports, about 100,000 of them are property crimes. Our efforts to review sexual assault incident reports and contact potential victims continue. We are also moving additional personnel to other investigative divisions to address these incident reports involving crimes against persons.
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