{"id":480906,"date":"2026-10-30T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480906\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T01:04:09","slug":"houston-places-police-chief-two-officers-on-paid-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480906\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston places police chief, two officers on paid suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HOUSTON, Miss. (WTVA) \u2013 The City of Houston has placed its police chief and two officers on paid suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Houston Board of Aldermen made the decision Tuesday with a three-to-two vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">What led to the suspensions has not been confirmed. However, they followed a Tuesday meeting where Mayor Stacey Parker and the Board discussed the employment status of Chief Alberto Davis and two officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The department only had seven officers in total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mayor Park will be overseeing the police department\u2019s administrative operations during the suspensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As for safety?<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI can speak with confidence with the department that we have that we will be okay. And also, as the Alderman of Ward 4, I can also say we have a plan in action,\u201d said Ward 4 Alderman John Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He said the City of Houston has options if additional safety efforts are needed, which include bringing back neighborhood watch efforts or patrolling neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Harris said the city\u2019s next steps are unclear. He said that leaders need to hear from the community before determining which direction to take.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WTVA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Miss. (WTVA) \u2013 The City of Houston has placed its police chief and two officers on paid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-480906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}