The Houston Chronicle isn't known as a bastion of liberal investigative reporting, but they do have Thom Marshall. He recently wrote a column talking about the Houston Police Department's Internal Affairs division's Citizen Review Committee. It stuck in the back of my head for a few days and I finally sent an email to Hizzhonor Brown's office.
Yesterday I got home to find a voice mail from my husband telling me I had a message from a police officer. Normally that's not a good thing!!! But it was just Lt. Collman, calling to tell me about the committee. I submitted a request to be considered for the committee today. He told me it takes 2-3 weeks to hear back about this sort of thing, so I'll just have to be patient.
The thing that really got me was that Lt. Collman said that I was the third person who had expressed interest in being involved. The greater Houston area has about 6 million people. So if we're really conservative and say 500,000 see the paper every day and even more conservative and say 100,000 read Thom Marshall, 3 is a pretty sad number of people who care about the outcome of issues relating to the conduct of our police department. Have these people never heard of Pedro Oregon? The K-Mart Raid? The DNA Lab? I mean, all the way back to Free The Moody Park Three - sheesh!
If you want to read what Mr. Marshall had to say, click here.Labels: headlines, law, personal urban drama |
