Houston Fails to Prosecute Thousands of
Crimes Due to 'Lack of Personnel'
Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/28/2024 11:56:58 AM
Something is definitely amiss at the police department in Houston, Texas, and it's a problem that's been brewing since well before the border invasion began. Houston has one of the highest per capita crime rates of any city of any size in the country, but amazingly, that's not the entirety of the problem. The Houston Police Department is investigating crimes and bringing charges as they should be, though it's more difficult to keep up during the current era of soaring crime rates. But in the cases where they do manage to launch an investigation, roughly ten percent of those cases have been suspended without a resolution, with the department
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Is this peak dystopia?
Somehow I doubt it, although it’s hard to imagine how much more dystopian — and in what yet-unimagined ways — things can get.
Let’s not underestimate the depravity of the Social Justice™ left — especially north of the border.
Here we go with a full test of your gag reflex, dear reader.
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