HPD Brass defended himself, the former boss contradicted Iad about the coding scandal

Houston, Texas (KTRK) – The Houston police authority has finally published a cache with internal documents in which the controversial practice of suspension of thousands of criminal investigations, many with serious crimes, was suspended on the basis of a lack of personnel.

These records, which were only preserved after a long struggle for the public information request, include the unveiling of internal communication, which led to a social media post on Friday evening, in which HPD admitted, a significant number of cases of sexual assault.

The Fallout would soon lead to intensive checks and top levels, including Chief Troy Finner, who retired exactly a year ago.

But the story goes deeper.

In February last year, the then chief finder publicly frustrated with unresolved cases of sexual crime in adults and initially estimated around 4,000 reports. Within a few days, this number exploded in more than 260,000 cases in a variety of crimes, robbery, theft and attacks that were never examined. The scandal would lead to Finner's retirement and trigger a comprehensive examination for internal matters.

Now 13 examinations have received these internal statements.

A lieutenant of the Special Opfims division announced that he was aware of the controversial code pension codex in 2016 and was only stopped last year. This directly contradicts Finner's claim that he instructed the practice to stop in 2021.

Several other commanders also contradicted statements by the boss and his deputy boss, which further confused the timeline of the department for the accountability duty. Another explanation showed that a state audit of 2016 concerns about the suspension code, but no corrective measures were taken.

The more than 100 pages of documents in detail exactly who and when knew. HPD fought hard to keep them from a public perspective.

“It was over a year since I first requested her,” said 13 Investigate producer Sarah Rafique, who submitted the records in April 2024. Despite the Texan General Prosecutor, HPD ordered the publication of the documents in June almost a year later, shortly before Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. that the documents were finally published in Rafique.

“It only shows that they didn't want this information to come out,” said Rafique. “They tried to hold back public information that is of interest to everyone.”

The documents offer a rare look at how high -ranking leadership reacted to the consequences and tried to protect themselves.

HPD referred 13 examinations to the department's final report on this matter in order to react to a request for comments.

Mayor John Whitmire told 13 investigations: “In my administration, the officials were told that they should end codes as soon as they were discovered. Immediately.”

This is a developing story.

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