The Houston Police Department could receive over $1 billion operating funds next year for the first time in its history.
Agencies also have grappled with heightened recruitment difficulties in recent years, largely fueled by increasingly negative public perceptions of law enforcement, said“Many experts believe the attention from highly publicized deadly encounters with citizens, and the criticism of the police that has followed, has made policing as a career choice less attractive for many,” Snell said. “I believe HPD's difficulty in recruiting officers is part of a national trend.
“We’re having to make up for prior years' challenges, which are decades in the making. We’re doing so with hiring incentives, increased pay, and more,” she said. “We are doing everything we can as we continue to face the budgetary constraints of the revenue cap.”Around $60 million of the police department's budget for Fiscal Year 2024 will come from federal COVID-19 relief money.
“The only way we've been able to stay afloat is through overtime dollars,” Griffith said. “We had ARPA money that we could spend for overtime that helps us bring down some of the crimes. Once that's out and we're out of overtime money, you're not going to have enough officers on the street.” In 2022, the 20 largest cities in the United States collectively spent almost $38 billion on policing and jailing, a figure that, in many locations, exceeds 10 times the investment made in local resources such as housing, parks and infrastructure, a recent study by theIn line with other large metros in Texas, Houston allocated approximately five times more to the police department and municipal courts than to parks, health, housing and other community services last year, the report points out.
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