Mayor John Whitmire issues the first report from his independent review panel, including recommendations on far-reaching procedural changes for the Houston Police Department
This week’s Insider Deals are so good you’ll want all of them– The road leading to the now infamous “SL” code that sparked a movement within some units of the Houston Police Department to push cases aside for “lack of personnel” began in 2014 when Chief Charles McClelland presented his plan to City Council for growing the department. Keeping that expansion plan on track meant every 3 years, HPD had to justify why they needed more officers.
That same memo includes an explanation from Melissa Cummins in the Office of Planning & Data Governance on who came up with the coding and the intent behind it: They said a structured system of checks and balances needs to be put in place so there’s constant review and re-review of incident reports that are not being investigated because they’ve been categorized as either suspended or inactive.Written directives for policy changes affecting the entire department.Meeting Minutes recorded to document decision points.Case assignment process must have reasonable/workable timelines.
Regarding incident reports with a final disposition of INAC – No leads, where the victim-survivor could not be located. is now under investigation by Internal Affairs as it came to light that her claims in the letter – which bolstered former Chief Troy Finner’s statements – were inaccurate.
Finner Mayor John Whitmire Suspended Cases Deactivated Cases
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