The Michael Berry Show and update to the Houston Police Department scandal

I think this is the worst scandal

Since I've been following HPD for 35 years.

Way worse than even the Hardy Street raid, which was a terrible, terrible shame.

Because this involves people at the top and it has many more victims.

K-H-O-U's Jeremy Rogowski, a fine journalist in this community for decades,

finds that in at least 26 cases where HPD suspended the cases over lack of personnel.

We just, that case, just make that case go away.

We're not going to investigate.

We're not doing that.

In at least 26 of those cases, the victim actually knew the suspect and even gave police the suspect's name.

She was raped by a neighbor, a friend's brother,

a co-worker, she gave that to police.

They know the suspect. And they threw it in the trash and said,

clear that case.

We don't have enough people.

At a time when they were spending 40 million dollars

on murals and street art, aka graffiti and trash. But they couldn't spend the money to investigate rape cases where the victim said, I know who raped me I was looking

him in the eye. Yeah, we just really don't have the energy or, you know, people to investigate.

But thanks for the call. Thanks for the call. Don't call us. We'll call you.

Script number one, K-H-O-U. Oh, is a slam dunk case. That's what Grant Farley thought two and a half years ago

after he met his boss at this bar in the Heights

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