Must not fisk the HPD Chief....

Houston's part-time Police Chief is blogging...

Go ahead, click it. You know you want to.


Ah forget it, I'm fisking the bad boy...

Welcome to my blog. I realize that I'm not the first police chief to start using a blog to communicate with local residents, and I'm hoping Houstonians will forgive me for being a little late to the game.

Welcome to my blog. It's hard to start these things up on time when you weekend in Phoenix. Crap, it took me three months just to stop referring to the Woodlands as Tempe.

I plan to use this forum as a tool to let you see some of the "behind the scenes" good work done by the men and women of the Houston Police Department … the kinds of things you aren't likely to see on the news. As you probably realize, the news media doesn't always show you the positive stories

Ted Oberg is a wimpy putz. I have proof.

Despite the headlines, violent crime is down, and, for its size, Houston is a safe city.

And Hurricanes are small storms when you compare them to storm activity on say....Jupiter.

And there are things you can do, in partnership with HPD, to make it even safer. I encourage you to check this site periodically because I'm hoping to show you how you can help make a difference in your neighborhood and this city.

For starters, HPD could really use your help as a volunteer. We have several programs that might interest you: Citizens Offering Police Support (where you can work in a variety of jobs and divisions here at HPD), Citizens On Patrol, Houston Citizens' Police Academy, and the Police and Clergy Team (PACT.) For more information on these and other volunteer programs, see this page of our web site.

Seriously, we need staffing help. We're so short of officers we're considering contracting with fathead.com.

Thanks for visiting. I look forward to hearing from you.

If you define hearing as "being able to have your comments screened by my IT guy/ghostblogger so that I don't have to pretend to answer any "tough" questions" that is.



Thank you Chief Hurtt, and we welcome your ghostblogger to the blogosphere.



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BlogHouston: Chief Hurtt's blog officially open for business