Late last night, Mayor John Whitmire announced in an email to city staff that Houston Police Chief Troy Finner has retired and Larry Satterwhite has been named acting police chief.
This, of course, is in addition to the thousands of cases in which HPD officers have used the “SL” code over the years to indicate on police reports that they will not investigate further due to a lack of information. It follows the revelation of an incident or incident and the subsequent investigation. human resources.
The final nail in the coffin for Chief Finner may have been the email reported by ABC13 and other news outlets. The email appears to have been written by Chief Finner in 2018, three years before he became police chief, in reference to issues with pending cases. That timeline contradicts his previous statements about when he realized it. Mr. Finner said he did not remember the email.
This is one of several recent examples of how district officials interact with each other, and how they are completely out of sync with each other. And maybe that’s a kind way to put it.
We discuss this and other developments in local, state and national politics in our weekly roundup. Joining us this week for analysis is Jeronimo Cortina, political scientist at the University of Houston and co-host of Party Politics. nancy simspolitical analyst and lecturer at UH.
