City continues review of Mobility Response Team problems
Earlier in the week, the Chron's Bradley Olson blogged about efforts to fix some of the problems with the Mobility Response Team, another of Mayor White's Ready-Fire-Aim! programs that wasn't quite ready for primetime at launch:
City Council members got a lengthy presentation today from the Houston Police Department on its plans to reform the "Mobility Response Team" program, which Mayor Bill White has called a "traffic SWAT team."
A series of Wayne Dolcefino reports on lengthy breaks taken by mobility officers during peak traffic hours, exaggerated accounting for their work and a stunning set of clips showing them doing little to nothing (including one while an elderly woman struggled to cross the street just a stone's throw away) prompted HPD to conduct a thorough investigation.
At an unusually well-attended (by council members, that is) Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee meeting, Assistant Chief Vicki King outlined more than a dozen training, supervisory and accountability reforms they are in the process of implementing for the program.
The Undercover Man's followup reporting on the (not-unimportant!) story he broke is here. He adds that HPD's investigation into the problems he documented should be completed in May.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/15/09 11:56 PM | Print |
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