Month: November 2007

Last week, Chief Hurtt’s blog promised to address Mark Greenblatt’s KHOU-11 report criticizing HPD’s refusal to classify some deaths as murders. Today, Chief Hurtt’s blog repeated the HPD PR talking points that Greenblatt’s reporting was

The Houston Press had lots of candidates for its Turkeys of the Year this time around — METRO, Michael “Babe Pages” Berry, Priscilla Slade, the rodeo, carpetbagger City Council candidates, and more. Click here to

Back in September, we were first alerted that HPD wanted to add drones to its force, to help with traffic and tactical situations: Executive Assistant Chief Martha Montalvo confirmed the department is close to making

KTRK-13 has an interesting headline to a story by Miya Shay posted to its website: Will downtown park attract residents? Since Downtown and Midtown have effectively been ceded to aggressive panhandlers, we imagine the new

KPRC-2 reports that Houston’s deal with Earthlink for city-wide wi-fi is a no-go: A public wireless network for the city of Houston is apparently dead, KPRC Local 2 reported Wednesday. EarthLink, the company that was

It looks as if KHOU-11’s Mark Greenblatt struck a nerve with his story about HPD fudging homicide numbers. As reported by Matt Stiles and Mark Greenblatt, Chief Hurtt held a press conference yesterday to refute

This is a stunning discovery by KHOU-11’s Mark Greenblatt: In murder after murder and case after case, KHOU has discovered the Houston Police Department has found ways to wipe homicides off the books. They don’t