The Houston Police Department has told Council Member Edward Pollard it will no longer accept his office’s overtime funding for the District J Patrol, effectively putting the custom neighborhood program on ice. Pollard’s office has used district service funds since 2020 to pay officers for overtime shifts that focused on resident-submitted quality-of-life complaints. With HPD walking away from that setup, Pollard says the patrol is now defunct, setting up a very public fight over who gets to call the shots on patrol priorities in parts of southwest Houston.
HPD’s directive
Houston Police Department Executive Chief Thomas Hardin told Council Member Edward Pollard’s staff in an email that council offices “decide the particulars of how the Houston…..