Humble ISD president to challenge Lina Hidalgo in ‘22 (Houston: crime, college)

[hbcu]

Originally Posted by SanJac

Texas Monthly trying to figure out why so many Hispanics in Texas are voting Republican... latest theory is they think they are "white." Yeah, right.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-po...latinos-trump/

Those that think that are the dangerous ones lol

They can play both sides election time - use the Hispanic name as a aid but act white in the voting blocks

[crone]

Originally Posted by utche96

Sure hope that Hidalgo is given the boot. She has been a complete disaster. Cares more about mask mandates than preventing violent crime. If you care at all about reducing the crime rate in Houston then vote against Hidalgo.

The commissioners court has never funded the HCSO properly. Many years it depended on who was sheriff. It has nothing to do with Hidalgo. This has been a problem for 50 years. Unincorporated Harris county would be the 5th largest city in the country and they cannot even make an ordinance about noise or lose dogs without going to the state for permission.

Many years ago when I first started paying attention a commissioner and a constable decided subdivisions would pay for extra. They has never been enough deputies on the streets. SO the HOA and/or MUDs pony up for additional patrols. They pay the salary, the county pays for the car. If something comes up, the LEO can leave his patrol.

Last time I looked at the population of unincorporated Harris county and the ratio of LEOs, they were down a couple thousand deputies.

My neighbor had a daytime burglary. HCSO came out. She had to beg them to do fingerprints. They just wanted to give her the form for the insurance.

HCSO deputies couldn't find their butts with 2 hands and a flashlight. Never could. They patrol my neighborhood from 10-2 M-F. The wheels are stolen off trucks and people go through cars at 3 AM.

If by violent crime you mean people shooting each other, most of them know each other.

[utche96]

Originally Posted by crone

The commissioners court has never funded the HCSO properly. Many years it depended on who was sheriff. It has nothing to do with Hidalgo.

Agreed that it's been a problem for a while. Cuevas made that exact point in the interview, but he also said that Hidalgo and the current CC has taken it to a new level. Given the rapid increase in violent crime in Harris County, I would have expected more funding for the HCSO not less. The sad part is that I never hear Hidalgo talk about the surge in violent crime. All I hear her talk about is COVID. Of course, COVID is important but so are rising homicides and assaults.

Cuevas reserved his harshest criticism for the current County Judge.

"Lina Hidalgo and the Commissioners Court under her direction is worse than any variant that's hit Harris County," he said.

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It's odd that you persist in blaming County Judge Hidalgo for the rise in crime (a national phenomenon, and one over which she has little to no control) which has occurred against the backdrop of a global pandemic (with near paralyzed court and jail systems, which in Harris County were already under strain from Hurricane Harvey), and insist on hitching your wagon to a clownish partisan of a deputy "because he said so", someone whose job is literally fighting crime and who appears to be more directly failing at it.

You must not have not been paying attention if you claim Hidalgo has never addressed crime. She has pledged tens of millions in dollars toward adding judicial capacity as well as improving law enforcement technology. This approach, by the way, has historically been opposed by more liberal leaders for fear that any increase in prosecutions leads to more low-level offenders being unjustly prosecuted.

Harris County Leaders Propose Multi-Million Dollar Investment To Curb Increase In Violent Crime
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/a...ate-increases/

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by utche96

Agreed that it's been a problem for a while. Cuevas made that exact point in the interview, but he also said that Hidalgo and the current CC has taken it to a new level. Given the rapid increase in violent crime in Harris County, I would have expected more funding for the HCSO not less. The sad part is that I never hear Hidalgo talk about the surge in violent crime. All I hear her talk about is COVID. Of course, COVID is important but so are rising homicides and assaults.

You must not listen to her that often then.

[utche96]

Originally Posted by fnh

You must not have not been paying attention if you claim Hidalgo has never addressed crime. She has pledged tens of millions in dollars toward adding judicial capacity as well as improving law enforcement technology. This approach, by the way, has historically been opposed by more liberal leaders for fear that any increase in prosecutions leads to more low-level offenders being unjustly prosecuted.

Harris County Leaders Propose Multi-Million Dollar Investment To Curb Increase In Violent Crime
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/a...ate-increases/

Its interesting how the narrative on this thread has shifted from Hidalgo has nothing to do with crime and law enforcement to she is actively trying to address crime (and apparently doing a great job). Adding judicial capacity is great but not even close to enough to address the surge in violent crime. We need more law enforcement officers on the streets, more jail capacity, and we need our judges to stop releasing violent criminals on PR bond especially repeat offenders.

[utche96]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

You must not listen to her that often then.

I follow her very active Twitter feed. She rarely if ever talks about the surge in violent crime.

[fnh]

Originally Posted by utche96

Its interesting how the narrative on this thread has shifted from Hidalgo has nothing to do with crime and law enforcement to she is actively trying to address crime (and apparently doing a great job). Adding judicial capacity is great but not even close to enough to address the surge in violent crime. We need more law enforcement officers on the streets, more jail capacity, and we need our judges to stop releasing violent criminals on PR bond especially repeat offenders.

And yet your blame weirdly remains laser-focused on Hidalgo who is nowhere near responsibility for any crime trends. You [falsely] claimed she has never addressed crime so I merely pointed out how she quite publicly pledged a bunch of money toward reducing the judicial system backlog and also toward improving law enforcement technology, but perhaps she didn't tweet enough about it for those who need to process information in tiny chunks.

[utche96]

Originally Posted by fnh

And yet your blame weirdly remains laser-focused on Hidalgo who is nowhere near responsibility for any crime trends. You [falsely] claimed she has never addressed crime so I merely pointed out how she quite publicly pledged a bunch of money toward reducing the judicial system backlog and also toward improving law enforcement technology, but perhaps she didn't tweet enough about it for those who need to process information in tiny chunks.

You do realize this thread is about Hidalgo? Her name is in the title. There are multiple systemic failures. I blame the voters above all that keep electing judges that continue releasing violent criminals.

And stop with the arrogant little insults. If you want to turn this into a putdown contest than we can go down that route. Twitter is a very popular news medium especially for local news whether you like it or not. Hidalgo apparently agrees given her twitter frequency.

[fnh]

Dude, this thread was simply about a challenger for Hidalgo and over and over you beat your drum blaming Hidalgo for the rise in crime. Nearly everyone here has pointed out that the Harris Co. judge has nothing to do with crime management and is instead the CEO of county operations, but you kept pointing to your guy Cuevas to back up your beef with Hidalgo. So, OK.

Cuevas, is that you?