We can now add a high-school student troubled about rampant crime in his southwest Houston neighborhood to the blogHOUSTON chorus wondering when Mayor White and his council plan to address the Houston Police Department’s manpower issues.
Here’s an excerpt from Rick Casey’s column today:
IT was not a situation Lee High School student Donald Hanks could easily have imagined.
Standing at a microphone in the school library Thursday night in front of a crowd of 200, he was politely but firmly asking for specific commitments from two City Council members and enough police brass for several school bells.
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They wanted help cracking down on the crime that has left four students and former students dead and seven more shot, that has drug dealers patrolling the neighborhood, that has prostitution run out of “spas” and rent-by-the-hour motels.
They asked for and received promises of:
