“Disappearing” crime in houston: pd, under one of the usual suspects, hid hundreds of thousands of crime reports, so they would not be investigated or counted

By N.S.

“Houston mayor says police chief is out amid probe into thousands of dropped cases

“mayor John Whitmire said he did not push out former police chief Troy Finner but accepted his retirement as the police department needed to move forward under new leadership.”

“Whitmire, who took office in january, had expressed confidence in Finner after the chief revealed in february that more than 264,000 incident reports in the past eight years were never submitted for investigation as officers assigned them an internal code that cited a lack of available personnel.

Finner had said he ordered his command staff in a november 2021 meeting to stop using it after learning of its existence. despite this, he said, he learned on feb. 7 of this year that it was still being used to dismiss a significant number of adult sexual assault cases.

Whitmire’s confidence in Finner seemed to quickly end this week after Houston television stations reported tuesday that Finner had been informed about the dismissed incident reports in a 2018 email.”

Hidden among the 264,000 hidden incident reports were “4,000 sexual assault allegations.” The philly p.d. became infamous for its “disappearing” of rapes by “unfounding” them. Simply hiding the initial reports saves the work of "unfounding" them.

N.S. bibliography on “disappearing crime” in nyc, philly, chicago, dallas, etc.

“Houston mayor John Whitmire and police chief Troy Finner at a news conferemce in Houston on march 11”