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The Michael Berry Show

Did Sylvester Turner Prioritize Murals Over Rape Victims?

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

The Michael Berry show things are not going well at the Houston Police Department

0:05.8

So originally it was 2,000 HPD cases that were suspended due to lack of personnel

0:14.0

Hmm now it turns out it's 264,000 cases and

0:18.0

we're hearing it could be many more.

0:23.6

Fox News is, Fox 26, it's not Fox News, Fox 26 is Greg Gruegan has been on this story

0:30.6

and he had this to say.

0:32.0

Roughly 24 hours after a major HPD scandal grew exponentially worse,

0:38.0

city leaders expressed shock, anger, and promised action.

0:42.0

At the public session of city council,

0:45.0

measured silence from the new mayor on a mounting public safety debacle

0:50.0

inherited from his predecessor.

0:52.0

More than 4,000 allegations of rape never

0:56.0

investigated. Sexual assaults dating all the way back to 2016. Am I proud

1:02.2

about this? Am I? No, I'm angry, okay? Because I know we're better.

1:08.0

The scandal deepening Monday with the revelation more than a quarter million other criminal cases

1:14.0

were administratively shelved, purportedly due to lack of manpower.

1:19.2

Council members both new and old are justifiably distressed.

1:24.0

My question I guess would be, were the victims notified that these cases have been put aside?

1:29.0

And if not, who is accountable to notify the victims of this?

1:32.0

It is so upsetting and I can't even imagine. who is accountable to notify the victims of this?

1:32.6

It is so upsetting and I can't even imagine what they're going through.

1:36.5

It's almost like they've been victimized twice now, you know, first in the act and now

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