Montalvo strikes again!

KHOU-11's Mark Greenblatt reports on the latest gaffe by HPD's frequently entertaining assistant police chief Martha Montalvo:

So what did HPD have to say [about crime reporting questions]? They said they are doing everything correctly, because they have been checked out by outside agencies.

And that’s not all.

11 News: “Has the FBI audited you?”

HPD Asst. Chief Martha Montalvo: “I believe the last time I was told we were audited was is in 2001, and I believe 2006 or 2007; the early part of 2007.”

In fact, city police also claimed in a statement that, “HPD ... passes frequent audits by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their … crime reporting procedures.”

So everything must be OK, right?

Wrong. An e-mail from the FBI to 11 News said HPD’s claims about those audits is “incorrect.”

11 News: “How do you explain if the FBI says that’s not true?”

MM: “I have no explanation for that. That’s what I was told.”

And what about HPD’S other claims?

“We’ve been audited by DPS in 2004, 2001, 2002,” Asst. Chief Montalvo had said at a public meeting.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said in the last six years they have done zero audits of HPD.

But 11 News Investigates has discovered that the Houston Police Department may have an even bigger problem on their hands: Experts say the very way the department gathers and counts many crime stats is all wrong and may be giving Houstonians a false picture of just how safe the city is.

Whoops!

There's more in Greenblatt's reporting on the controversy over HPD's crime statistics reporting.

HPD pushed back hard after Greenblatt's original reports a few weeks ago, but it would seem Greenblatt is sticking by his reporting.

It might be nice to hear from Chief Hurtt on the matter, but we suspect he was probably hard to reach in Arizona this weekend (even though he wants some local reporters to know he REALLY LOVES Houston).

Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/03/07 09:48 PM | Houston Miscellany | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (3)

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