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John Whitmire: “We had to take 80 officers off street investigate those…”

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

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Houston Mayor John Whitmire On Budget Shortfall, Infrastructure, Podcast & More

Published | Video Starts at 12:18

Correct. But the rest of the Cities didn't have 260,000 suspended HPD cases that had not been open. That happened my second month on the job. We had to take 80 officers off street investigate those cases and many of them ended up being prosecuted. So there's just. Let's talk about Bark the animal shelter. You know, it needs resources. (12:18–12:25)

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Asserts that 80 officers were reassigned to investigate cases, leading to prosecutions.

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