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John Whitmire: “We had to take 80 officers off the street, put them in a…”

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

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Other cities didn't have the challenges that, that we faced. When I was sworn in my second month in office, we were made aware that there were 260,000, 260,000 suspended police cases investigations. So We had to take 80 officers off the street, put them in a facility process. Those suspended cases led to indictments and convictions. some very violent cases, domestic offenses, some assaults, one on one. So we had to clear that we had to do it. (10:40–10:49)

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