(Bloomberg) -- Houston plans to hire more police and park rangers while devoting more money to overtime pay for cops amid a violent crime wave in the fourth-largest U.S. city.
The first step will be to immediately deploy 125 more officers and recruit more trainees to the city's police academy, Mayor Sylvester Turner said Wednesday in a flurry of tweets.
“These additional officers will be deployed primarily based on data driven, evidence-based analysis of when and where the most violent crimes are occurring and to provide more visibility toward crime deterrence and rapid response to crimes in progress,” Turner wrote.
The announcement comes just days after three officers were wounded in a daytime shootout, and a suburban cop was murdered in a separate incident. In 2022, Houston has had more murders than New York, Chicago or Los Angeles as of Jan. 23 data, according to local media reports.
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