Police Unions Never Stop Complaining-Whitmire's Houston Not Safe According To HPOU

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​​The Houston Police Officers Union never stops complaining. 

From a report on Fox News:

"We're in a perfect storm right now," (Houston Police Officer's Union) President Douglas Griffith said. "We had the George Floyd effect come down. We can't hire. We can't retain our officers. The people are leaving left and right."

"Who in the heck wants to be a police officer in 2024?" (HPOU Executive Director) Hunt asked, "when every single thing that they're doing is going to be second-guessed by their body-worn camera that someone can watch three or four times to determine whether or not that officer made the right split-second decision.

Get it? George Floyd went and got himself killed by a cop & now police are subject to additional review.   

​Griffith also called out the court system for "not doing their job." 

"Their contention is that we can't hold somebody. We have to give everybody a bond, yes, the first time. Once they violate that bond, they can be held in jail until they go to court again. And we get people on six, seven, eight, nine bonds at one time. And that's a problem that we have to fix in the courts.

Fix the courts. What does that mean? The people of Houston/Harris County have elected the judges they want no matter the endless and relentless attacks on Harris County judges. Fix the courts? You mean remove elected judges or restrict in some manner the election of judges? We don't want judges from an authoritarian anti-democratic Republican Party. Why would we?  

Above is a mailing I got from the local public safety unions during the 2023 municipal election season. (I've added some coffee stains.) The logos of the police and fire unions are on the mailing and they got the result they wanted. John Whitmire was elected Mayor.  And still they complain and complain and complain.

Sorry if being supervised and living in a democracy is a hassle.   

John Whitmire outsourced his negative campaigning to the public safety unions. They were more than happy to help.  Our public safety unions back election deniers who try to take our freedom. We give these  safety unions so much of our city budget, while we have so many unmet needs in the city.      

We live in a great and hopeful city. It's not the terrible place the right keeps saying it is. Our voters are not bad people. Police do well by Houston taxpayers. How about they seek solutions and be a full part of our community rather than bash us on Fox News?   

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