data from our partners at the Houston Chronicle showing that lawsuits filed for crashes involving police officers rose<\/a> 71%. When Eyewitness News asked about this, Diaz said the stats include minor crashes too.<\/p>\n“We get in crashes. We drive for a living. HPD is doing a lot of work; our city is incredibly large, and part of that is going to have some accidents involved,” he said.<\/p>\n
Diaz also added that “training is happening all the time and again, people are doing the best that they can trying to reduce the calls for service all the time.”<\/p>\n
During the week, there was a combative council chamber on Tuesday, as city officials presented city data involving their encounters with ICE, and the chief was nowhere to be found to answer questions.<\/p>\n
This is something that council members were very upset about.<\/p>\n
“The city attorney asked the chief to not make a record that would be used in court – tough decision, but you have to follow your attorney’s advice,” Whitmire said.<\/p>\n
Whitmire said the chief had already met with each council member about this.<\/p>\n
“The reason they have that information, the reason that report actually exists is because of me – immigration is personal to me,” Diaz said.<\/p>\n
When ABC13 asked Diaz why he wasn’t at the council meeting, he said their legal team asked him not to go because of the legal battle involving police.
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