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August 12, 2014 11:42 PM   Subscribe

In the three and a half years since Hofheinz has been Houston’s mayor, more than 25 cases in which police have shot and killed or wounded citizens have gone without charges to Harris County grand juries. Only one officer has been indicted during that period: an off-duty policeman who wounded a businessman after their cars collided on a freeway. In the first six weeks after June 15, when the HPD officially opened an internal affairs division to investigate police misconduct, it received more than 180 citizen complaints. The question remains: Are the Houston police out of control?
Texas Monthly, September 1977
posted by katemonster (1 comment total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: We have a couple of police brutality / murder threads going right now, so this might work better as a comment in one of those, or if there's a particular reason for posting a nearly-40-year-old article, it's better to make that clear in a more complete post. -- taz



 
That's a long time ago.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 11:45 PM on August 12, 2014


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