Armed robbers hit Galleria-area pharmacy
Remember that useful report by KPRC-2 that broke down HPD response times by police beat?
Here's a refresher on some key information:
The difference [in response times] comes from HPD having to compensate for a lack of manpower. The bulk of officers are deployed to areas with the highest crime, but that means neighborhoods with traditionally lower crime rates are left with fewer officers. That also means police take longer to respond to calls for help in these areas.
Criminals can figure out how HPD is deploying its resources.
Thus, when supposedly "low-crime" areas are left with fewer resources because of the manpower shortage that Mayor White and his Council continue to disregard, those areas may start to see some pretty brazen crimes:
Police are looking for robbery suspects Friday morning after they hit a pharmacy in southwest Houston.
The masked men were apparently armed with BB guns when they entered a CVS pharmacy on Richmond and Sage in southwest Houston.
The men allegedly made off with about $2,000 in cash,as well as some codeine and Prilosec.
None of the employees inside was hurt.
Richmond and Sage isn't some vague part of southwest Houston. Richmond and Sage is within walking distance of the Galleria (the city's finest shopping), not to mention the office where I work and the gym I use most of the time. It's not a part of town known for incidents of violent crime!
But criminals seem able to figure out when there's not enough of a police presence. Why is it so hard for our Mayor and his Council?
RELATED COVERAGE: KTRK-13.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 06/10/05 07:59 PM | Print |
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