The Houston Police Department has suspended more than 260,000 department-wide cases since 2016 due to a lack of personnel. Police Chief Troy Finner said that figure makes up about 10 percent of all cases filed in the past eight years.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/police/2024/02/27/478931/houston-police-department-suspended-264000-cases-since-2016-due-to-lack-of-personnel-chief-says/

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Finner said a team of 32 people will work to clear the backlog of suspended cases. So far they have looked at 700 of the cases.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/police/2024/02/22/478328/houston-police-confirm-4000-plus-suspended-sexual-assault-cases-finner-vows-to-clear-backlog/

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A number of cases had been suspended due to a "lack of personnel"

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/criminal-justice/2024/02/20/478102/hpd-assigning-more-investigators-to-special-victims-division-a-number-of-adult-sexual-assault-cases-suspended-due-to-lack-of-personnel/

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