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John Whitmire: “If you arrest someone in Kingwood, DWI or house invasion…”

Featuring: John Whitmire, Nonpartisan | Mayor of Houston | Texas

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Mayor John Whitmire on Houston's Problems, Power & What Comes Next | SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS #13

Published | Video Starts at 1:03:10

Clock. That's a drive just to get to Kingwood. You know what, you know what's so revealing when I got out there? Because I'm talking to my story. Security guys. If you arrest someone in Kingwood, DWI or house invasion, you name it, and you got to take them downtown, that's an hour. You get to intake, that's two hours. Traffic's bad on the way home. If you're in Russia, it'll eat up the entire ship. There's got to be a better way. (1:03:10–1:03:21)

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Asserts that transporting arrestees from Kingwood to downtown takes an hour.

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