By 2014, HPD’s planning office talked about creating the Suspended-Lack of Personnel code for violent crimes, too. The situation kept escalating and going downhill.
The chief at that time said he wasn’t a part of the discussion about the SL code. He said he would not have approved it.
The chief at that time said he wasn’t looped in on discussions about this “SL” code, and said he would not have approved it, stressing that every serious crime should be assigned to a detective for at least some follow-up. HPD brass wasn’t required to sign off when the code was added to the department’s computer system in 2016. No one was put in charge of ensuring the code was used consistently by investigators. Experienced leaders in the department who could have been put in charge of the implementation left HPD that year when a push for pension reform created mass retirements of the command…
