Chief Hurtt rolls out "Robbery Reduction Initiative"
KHOU-11's Jeff McShan reports that Chief Hurtt has rolled out yet another program to the press fight crime:
An HPD robbery crackdown has put a special task force on Houston streets.
The dozens of lawmen and women are part of what’s being called “The Robbery Reduction Initiative.”
The idea is to have police respond to robberies before crooks have a chance to escape.
Officials made the move because they said that it is not uncommon to have 100 robberies on Friday and Saturday nights.
Wednesday night officers began patrolling the Greenspoint Mall area.
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Officials said it’s much needed. They said that from January 1 to July 1 of this year 6,690 robberies have been committed inside Houston’s city limits.
There were 6,151 robberies during the same time last year.
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The initiative hits Houston streets twice a week.
So if the initiative hits Houston streets twice a week, and Fridays and Saturdays are big robbery nights, why did the initiative begin on Wednesday? Wouldn't it make more sense to roll the program on Fridays AND Saturdays?
This new crimefighting by day of the week notion is pretty interesting in itself. I propose we do murders on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and we can do downtown jaywalking on Mondays. Robberies on Fridays and Saturdays. And no chases on any day of the week (of course)!
What should we do with Wednesdays? Any suggestions?
(Thanks to Matt Bramanti for alerting us to this exciting new crimefighting initiative)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 09/15/06 11:00 PM | Print |
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