Lee Patrick Brown is an American politician,criminologist and businessman;in 1997 he was the first African-American to be elected mayor of Houston,Texas. He was re-elected twice to serve the maximum of three terms from 1998 to 2004.
The Honolulu Police Department (HPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the City and County of Honolulu,Hawaii,headquartered in the Alapa'i Police Headquarters in Honolulu CDP.
Joseph Xavier Carollo is a Cuban-American politician who served as mayor of Miami from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2001. Following his loss in the 2001 mayoral election,he served as Doral,Florida city manager from January 2013 until his firing in April 2014;he was reinstated in June 2017,then immediately resigned. He successfully ran for election to the Miami city commission in 2017.
The Houston Police Department (HPD) is the primary municipal law enforcement agency serving the City of Houston,Texas,United States and some surrounding areas. With approximately 5,300 officers and 1,200 civilian support personnel it is the fifth-largest municipal police department,serving the fourth-largest city in the United States. Its headquarters are at 1200 Travis in Downtown Houston.
The Miami Police Department (MPD),also known as the City of Miami Police Department,is a full-service municipal law enforcement agency serving Miami,Florida,United States. MPD is the largest municipal police department in Florida. MPD officers are distinguishable from their Miami-Dade Police Department counterparts by their blue uniforms and blue-and-white patrol vehicles.
The history of the Houston Police Department started with the founding of the City of Houston. While the department's beginning was humble,it grew more advanced as technology became available and was able to handle the various challenges that would plague various cities as well as some of the more distinctive aspects of its geography.
JoséCampos Torres was a 23-year-old Mexican-American and veteran who was beaten by several Houston Police Department (HPD) officers,which subsequently led to his death. He had been brutally assaulted by a group of on-duty police officers on May 5,1977,after being arrested for disorderly conduct at a bar in Houston's Mexican-American East End neighborhood.
The United States police-rank model is generally quasi-military in structure. A uniform system of insignia based on that of the US Army and Marine Corps is used to help identify an officer's seniority.
The Edward A. Thomas Building,or 1200 Travis,is a 28-story building in Downtown Houston,Texas that is currently occupied by the Houston Police Department as its current headquarters. At one time it was known as the Houston Natural Gas Building. The building houses HPD's administrative and investigative offices.
Rodney Joseph Johnson was a Houston Police officer who served 14 years with the agency prior to his death in the line of duty on September 21,2006.
Charles A. McClelland Jr. was the police chief of the Houston Police Department (HPD) from 2010 through 2016. Joining the department in May 1977,McClelland worked his way up through the ranks,from rookie to assistant chief in 1998,before being asked to step in as acting chief. A graduate of the University of Houston–Downtown,University of Houston–Clear Lake,and the FBI National Academy,he oversaw the department's implementation of tasers and a real-time crime analysis program.
Link Valley is a community in southwestern Houston,Texas that consists of many apartment complexes. In the late 1980s it was nicknamed "Death Valley" due to high levels of drug-related and violent crime. Since a 1989 raid Link Valley has not had significant criminal activity.
The Richmond Avenue Entertainment District,commonly known as the Richmond Strip,is an entertainment district along Richmond Avenue in western/southwestern Houston,Texas. It was especially popular in the 1990s,but it later declined as a partygoing destination in favor of other areas of town,such as Washington Avenue. Erin Mulvaney of the Houston Chronicle stated that at its peak,it was "seen as the Houston's answer to Sixth Street,Beale Street and Bourbon Street."
Antonio Buehler is an American educator,entrepreneur,and activist known for his work on police accountability and his pursuit of a more widely recognized constitutional right to photograph,film and document the public activities of police. In 2012,Buehler was arrested in Austin,Texas,for video-recording police after he allegedly witnessed a woman being abused by officers. After the arrest,Buehler co-founded the Peaceful Streets Project,an organization that trains the public to record police activity. Buehler has been arrested a total of seven times,has had twelve criminal charges filed against him,and has had dozens of criminal investigations initiated against him.
Derrick Deshaun Watson is an American football quarterback for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Clemson Tigers,leading the team to a national championship in 2016. Watson was selected in the first round of the 2017 NFL draft by the Houston Texans.
Inspector Vicki King is a pioneering threat safety scientist in the healthcare sector. She is the leader of the Threat Assessment Unit at the University of Texas at Houston Police Department,which is a component of the University of Texas System.
Russell Reynolds Associates (RRA) is a management consulting firm. Established in 1969,the firm assists international and domestic companies develop leaders,assess business processes,and recruit new executives. It provides leadership advisory and executive recruiting services.
On January 28,2019,in the Pecan Park area in the East End district of Houston,Houston Police Department (HPD) officers initiated a no-knock raid on a house,killing the two homeowners,a husband and wife:Dennis Wayne Tuttle and Rhogena Ann Nicholas. They were aged 59 and 58,respectively. Five HPD officers sustained injuries.
Kim Ogg is an American lawyer and prosecutor. She is the Harris County District Attorney in Texas and assumed office on January 1,2017. Her current term ends on December 31,2024. She was previously the City of Houston’s first appointed Anti-Gang Task Force Director,and the executive director of Crime Stoppers of Houston. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
