HPOU’s Doug Griffith Raises Questions About The HPD Internal Affairs Investigation
The Michael Berry Show
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🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The that has a great history and should have a great future and crime is out of |
| 0:15.3 | control and a lot of this is decisions that are being made. We discovered that over |
| 0:22.0 | 260,000 cases were suspended from within the Houston Police Department |
| 0:27.7 | by a decision that was made that, well, we just don't have enough people to handle it. |
| 0:35.4 | This wasn't the rank and file cop who made this decision. This was made at the top levels. |
| 0:41.7 | It had to be. It's the only way this could be done. And now |
| 0:46.2 | when Internal Affairs, which is the department within the department, the |
| 0:51.4 | group within the department that is to investigate |
| 0:54.0 | that investigation is getting a lot of criticism |
| 0:57.5 | from the union of police officers the Houston police officers union |
| 1:02.3 | Doug Griffith the head of that organization questioned police officers the Houston police officers union |
| 1:02.6 | Doug Griffith the head of that organization questioning that this story from |
| 1:06.2 | kPRc TV |
| 1:08.2 | so far this investigation is one-sided |
| 1:10.6 | hPD's union not missing words as the president of the organization that represents the rank |
| 1:15.8 | and file says the Internal Affairs investigation being conducted by HPD into the suspended |
| 1:21.3 | investigation scandal is carefully not going after top-tier leadership. |
| 1:27.0 | It has to be a fair and impartial investigation which is hard to do without a statement from the chief or the EACs involved. |
| 1:34.0 | The union sending this letter today to the HPD commander over internal affairs, stating that |
| 1:38.8 | allegations made by Chief Finner and his former senior executive command staff are quote |
| 1:43.9 | inaccurate and at worst materially false or misleading. What steps did you take in |
| 1:50.1 | 2021 to investigate these cases that had been suspended. |
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