As much of Houston rang in the New Year with fireworks and champagne, police scanners told a different story. From early evening through the overnight hours, Houston police raced from call to call as reports of gunfire poured into 911, turning the holiday into a marathon shift for officers on patrol.
Numbers and trends
According to the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Police Department logged nearly 300 calls about suspected gunfire over the most recent New Year’s Eve. For Houston, that was actually the lowest New Year’s total in years. An open-records review by the Chronicle stacked that spike against a random September weekend that saw only about 71 gunfire calls and noted that New Year’s Eve 2023 brought in roughly 670 firearms-related calls, with…..