Houston Police Chief Troy Finner engages in full-blown damage control as it's uncovered that over a quarter million criminal cases spanning eight years were left uninvestigated
Houston police chief Troy Finner, in full-blown damage control mode after revealing more than a quarter million criminal cases were simply never investigated over the past 8 years, purportedly because of a chronic shortage of manpower. Thursday, Finner delivered some details - telling reporters the mountain of abandoned allegations included more than 115 thousand assaults... in addition to 91 thousand property and financial crimes.
Meantime Mayor John Whitmire, who inherited this scandal, expressed disappointment that neither officers nor their commanders felt compelled to blow the whistle."I can't believe that there wasn't some police officer or some administrator that didn't sound the alarm about - "ya'll know what's going on over there?" up to 200 thousand plus cases, a wide range of offenses, certainly sexual assault. . . . .
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