Houston Police Chief Retires Amid Probe Into Thousands of Dropped Cases

Published on May 9, 2024

Houston’s mayor says the city’s chief of police retired amid an internal affairs probe into why hundreds of thousands of cases were never investigated, including more than 4,000 sexual assault cases. Mayor John Whitmire said on Wednesday that he accepted Chief Troy Finner’s offer of retirement as the police department needed to move forward under new leadership during the ongoing probe. During a news conference, the mayor told reporters that the investigation and questions about what the former police chief knew and when he knew it were cumulatively impacting “morale in the department, the focus of the officers, and the confidence that Houstonians need to have in their police department.”...

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