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Post by avordvet on Apr 19, 2011 5:28:36 GMT -5
Why are these officers still on the street?If you did your job like they do theirs, you'd likely be fired - but not at HPDBy JAMES PINKERTON, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, March 28, 2011, 6:16AM Ten Houston Police Department officers have amassed 370 violations of HPD regulations over their careers, a laundry list of major and minor complaints that critics say illustrate how police can make mistakes repeatedly and still not lose their jobs. The complaints include failing to investigate a suspected child rape, skipping court testimony and causing a drug case to be dismissed, wrecking dozens of police and private cars, writing hot checks, refusing to answer internal affairs investigators and detaining innocent residents. The 10 officers - nine of whom are still active and one who resigned under investigation last year - have the most violations logged on an HPD Internal Affairs database of complaints sustained by police investigators. One officer has 47 sustained complaints against him alone. Another has 44. The disciplinary actions for the complaints are detailed in more than 1,100 pages of city records obtained recently through an open records request.... Read More: www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7493564.html
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Post by aronatbc on Apr 19, 2011 7:28:20 GMT -5
The Hoosten Comical is a bit of a Leftist rag, but if even half of this holds true...
Not good.
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Post by stoner44magnum on Apr 19, 2011 7:41:09 GMT -5
I can answer the question in the title of this post with one word. UNIONS!
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