( NewsNation ) — The Houston Police Department is retroactively investigating more than 264,000 reports that were suspended under an administrative code citing staffing shortages.
The cases include more than 4,000 adult sex crime reports, 109,000 major assault cases and 6,500 homicide cases. Each was suspended under the same “lack of personnel” code over at least eight years, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said at a Thursday news conference.
Sexual assault and homicide reports could be especially challenging for police to investigate without evidence that is often time-sensitive, trial attorney and legal analyst Misty Marris told NewsNation’s Hena Doba on “ Morning in America .” Is deploying the National Guard in NYC’s subway system necessary? “The problem is that some of these cases could never even make their way into the courtroom,” Marris said.
Investigators had reviewed 3,010 of the 4,017 adult sex crime reports and scheduled 133 follow-up interviews as of […]
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