HPD will receive only 100 new officers under the new city budget

The city of Houston needs about 2,000 more police officers to deal with rising crime, but despite the new billion-dollar city budget, they still won’t get the staffing boost they need . The budget only provides for around a hundred new agents.

A law enforcement expert says it’s better than nothing, but it’s still not enough. He said: “In a city the size of Houston, the workforce is negligible. There are 15 stations across the city, it’s a huge area to cover, so we’re short several thousand officers.

Fremin says even if HPD can’t get more money from the city of Houston, we could still get some from the federal government, or even the state. He said, “I mean, we did it under the Clinton administration, where they provided hundreds of millions of dollars to law enforcement to beef up police personnel and give more money to police services for recruitment. »

The question is: Will defunding the Democratic police officers who control the White House and Senate ever allow that money to reach local law enforcement agencies like HPD?