Brickbat: No Need To Hurry

The Houston Police Department halted more than 260,000 investigations between 2016 and 2023 because of a lack of personnel. Now, department leaders say they will try to catch up on those investigations, especially the 4,017 rape cases that were put on hold. Police officials said they did not realize just how often the "S.L." tag, for "Suspended–Lack of Personnel," was applied to cases until a home invasion and sexual assault in September 2023. Physical evidence recovered from that scene matched that of a rape kit from a September 2022 assault. Detectives found that the earlier case had been marked S.L. even though the victim gave police her attacker's name, description, and vehicle description.

Comments

[Rick James]

Congratulations on your police reform and introduction of social workers.

[mad.casual]

Gotta criticize every last case of police kneeling on someone who OD'ed or setting people, including themselves, on fire during an arrest. We can't have someone who made an off-color joke on a live bodycam showing up to help solve a back log of rape cases.

[Vernon Depner]

So, defunding the police is working. Our "babies" are not being prosecuted.

[Rossami]

Funny, I don't remember a "defund the police" campaign in 2016. Maybe this is due to something else?

Like maybe the same culture of unaccountability that eventually led those calls to defund the police?

[Vernon Depner]

"Physical evidence recovered from that scene matched that of a rape kit from a September 2022 assault. Detectives found that the earlier case had been marked S.L."

2022.

[Rossami]

"The Houston Police Department halted more than 260,000 investigations between 2016 and 2023"...

Yes, 2022 is between 2016 and 2023. So what?

[Vernon Depner]

I mute people who play dumb.

[Vernon Depner]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Policing

[Rossami]

Interesting book but other than a superficial similarity of topic, it has no connection to the recent calls to defund the police.

[mad.casual]

Funny, I don’t remember a “defund the police” campaign in 2016. Maybe this is due to something else?

If you were less 10 yrs. old, mentally retarded, or a disgustingly dishonest shiftless piece of human filth willing to cheer on political causes and social unrest on the back of corpses only to completely forget that you exploited the corpses like that a scant few years later, this would make perfect sense.

Otherwise, you might remember names from as far back as 2014 like Michael Brown and Eric Garner.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Needed to prioritize fake drug busts.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Once again, the solution is victim prosecution.

Monopoly government is dictatorship, whether by a mad man, self-selected elites, or majority rule.

[R Mac]

Why did Republicans do this?

[sarcasmic]

I'd wager that the vast majority of cases marked S.L. had victims, while the victimless crimes got priority. Why? They can't steal a rapist's home, but they can steal the home of someone who committed a crime against the state.