NTX police departments send officers to Houston
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- 60 officers from North Texas police departments made the trip to Houston to help police with the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl.
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Imagine if this were a category 3? Who the hell is running this city?
Exactly!! In Acapulco Mexico hit by cat 5 and the power was back on in 36 hours!!! WTF!!
Sadly mayor whitmore
Democrats
It was Sylvester Turner the previous mayor.... this is what he left for the new one....get it yet?
@@JoshuaGalvez-mq9rdjudge Hidalgo is the highest person in position in Houston! She is incompetent and the previous mayor turner was as corrupt as a 3rd world dictator
We don’t need to be arrested- we need power 😒
The jails have power
@@Rikkisio that’s understandable
Cause they focused getting power back to the rich neighborhoods first so they need cops to the poors
@@firefox1294 got a point
Oh yes we do. My husband’s truck was broken into and thousands of power tools were stolen that Monday morning during the hurricane. Another truck and car were broken into as well that day at 4 am. Those thugs wake up when hard working men go to sleep. During the police report the cop told me the crooks only steal when cops aren’t around, had there been more police officers nearby they wouldn’t be smashing windows left and right. Super fun going to the mechanic on a Tuesday during the chaos. The lot was full of people trying to repair their broken windows. Such a shame. Can’t get a job to save their life and don’t care about getting hurt and going out in the middle of a hurricane. All to steal someone’s living to get by until the next theft. Great role models. Model citizens. If they’re unemployed and have kids they even get food on the taxpayer’s dime. Despicable.
We should probably send utility workers to help Center Point rather than send cops from Dallas.
Deploy the national guard if they need security help…
Agreed. Someone should ask Oncor for some personnel help with restoring electricity.
Lol, we can't have civil unrest, or people upset about the power being out
Makes no sense…they do the dumbest things
i like in bowie county Texas, up northeast Texas...my power company sent 20 linemen and 8 trucks...but they not working because centerpoint wants to haggle over what they going to pay them
The Guard is there.
We need electricity not police. Send linemen and electricians.
houston needs both
They sent the linemen and they sat waiting on orders. Oh the tales they will tell once they get there about how a ss backward this place is! 😂
@@XJ9sodypop I guess you're right 👍
I knew this was gonna happen. CenterPointe was dragging their feet and I don’t mean the workers, I’m talking about the leadership and this weak electrical infrastructure. If you have to convert a stadium into a medical center it’s really bad.
Again, welcome to Abbott-land. Is he even in the state, or has he and Cruz flown off to Mexico?
Echoes of New Orleans Superdome during Katrina
@@00pinkman00 He is in Asia
Center point holds the grid only until first disaster, over and over power outages happening in the summer, but also in the winter.
This can't happen every single time we have a severe weather event in Houston...not during a very active hurricane season.
I could barely sleep with 2 days without power. I don't know how people did it back in the century 😮
It wasn’t this hot probably or they were used to it since there was no AC😂😂😂😂😂
@@kalamitygame4195 you do get used to it. The second day was more tolerable for me...
Lets just say THEY were rugged.
@@kalamitygame4195they were def used to it. We grew up with AC our whole lives. In Latin American countries people deal with worse heat than this but since they have no AC They are used to it.
People back then are built different
Meanwhile we are still without power here in houston...
all you fine hospitable upstanding Houston citizens Job 22:16
@@carlosrsolrac😂
Florida didn't have any for 9 long days
@@U3p695 Florida coastline didn't have as many trees falling on power lines
Welcome to Abbott-land. I bet he has electrical power.
We don't need no dam POPO..we need power!
crime is on the rise
😂
We need officers to stop the violent crime that will increase from rising opportunities due to power outages
You also need to send Abbott packing.
POPO are preventing the line workers from fixing the down lines, so how does this affect you unless you're out there looting at night.
state pays for it, but yet centerpoint still haggling with electric companies that got people on the ground sitting around not working cause they negotiating pay
Taxpayers, Pays for it!!! What is State Money, Taxpayers.
@@garywoods6649 state is paying for the cops that are going, centerpoint doesn't want to pay for the lineman that are coming to help....that not state, thats all on centerpoint
Result of Texas deregulation policies! Cause and effect! Deregulation = unreliable power!!!!
Shaking my head yes we need power but we also need these idiot drivers off the road that can’t do a simple stop sign
I believe Centerpoint is not able to take care of so many customers. The government should be considering not allowing them to handle the power lines for so many customers. The government should only allow one company to take care of small portions of the power lines. Shouldn't the Houston mayor and government take responsibility too?
I agree. Centerpoint (private co.) profited $7.6 Billion from their customers last year. And for some unknown reason, they fail to have an efficient strategy to take care of their customers. Something is deeply wrong here.
Yes, they should, but there are too many sweetheart deals to be made between your politicians and power companies. Texan's keep voting in the corrupt pickpocket politicians because of their misguided Texas pride. Let everyone else in the country know when you stop playing the corruption game. Then you might gain some sympathy and support for your self imposed situation.
100 officers for a city of 4 million😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They just came for strip clubs and barbecue that they’ll write off as work expenses
😂😂😂
A big joke!! 😂
It's 100 _extra_ officers. Houston is still using their existing officers. Houston employs about 5000 officers, and Harris county about 4000. That's 100 more officers available to respond to calls or provide help, or even to do traffic duty in place of HPD and HCSO officers freeing them up for more critical things.
@@Locke99GS
It was a category 1 and Houston is suffering like a category 3 hurricane just hit them. I can’t even imagine what a category 3 or 4 will do to this city.
It's the deterioration of the electrical grid, mainly due to lax maintenance by centerpoint, the local power infrastructure manager. Back then only the big storms like Rita, Ike, and Harvey caused widespread outages. Now it seems any freeze or strong wind can knock out power in Houston.
And this was only a Cat 1
Lol
Brotherly neighbor taking care of their neighbors. Thank you
Here comes a “Soft” Martial Law.
Remember that the number of people they said are without power are actually the number of electric meters and not people. More than 1 person can be in the same house. So the actual number of people without power is way more.
Wrong. That is the total population of the areas without power
@@safeandeffectivelol wrong
You must not be from Houston. You think everybody is documented?
There are easily multiple families, sharing single households that are unaccounted for.
@@safeandeffectivelol Wrong, it is not.
@@meself4955 They are correct. Newcomers for example.
@@safeandeffectivelol yea you wrong on that one my guy
How about sending more linemen?
This sounds like HPD theater, we could use National Guard, not cops.
Threres 20,000 of them. They staffed up going to South Texas where the idiots and the weather news said it was going to hit...then they had to chase it to Houston....400 miles away. Figure it out.
They did get extra linemen from all over and they sat in their trucks waiting on orders 😂
Bs thats sounds political
To: Centerpoint Linemen, Please do not be distracted by the Lt Governors comments. Continue to work as safely as necessary to restore power. We appreciate that you face serious hazards to help us get the lights back on.
Thank you Dallas. We are in desperate need here. Sad😢😢😢😢 Texans helping Texans. God bless The good United State of Texas
📣Voter's take note!!
Voting doesn’t do a damn thing. The WEF always selects the corrupt winners. They are merely puppets doing what they are told at our expense.
Category 1 hurricane?! Houston you’ve got to be kidding me. You got lucky this time
Sometimes category ones are more problematic because with its low strength it turns into a tropical storm and sit longer on a spot causing flooding.
You guys don't deal with Hurricanes like we do bro, it wasn't bad but it did some damage.
We’ve had bigger. We know what to do here. We can’t help the power grid that is run by the state.
@javiergarza8626 this one didn't sit long at all. We just weren't prepared
Its called holiday weekend and being drunk for said holiday weekend. And its not just the people but the ones in charge.
Centerpoint sucks!!!
Balls
Donkey
Why send cops? What are they going to do? Write parking tickets?
crime is out of control in houston
@Quantrills.Raiders what else is new? Been that way for many years. This is what you get with democrat run big cities. The entire California coastline is a trainwreck.
Crime is not out of control here 🤣🤣🤣. Get out of here with your scare tactics.
Yes. They are going to generate a ton of revenue tickets for the city while collecting state welfare.
They will get electricity hooked up to Dunkin Donuts lickety split
How? We have our own issues...
Im sure Joel Olsteen will contribute
HA, ha, ha, ha, .........
He left for the west coast of Mexico on his private jet last week
😂
Houstonians need power not police.
Houstonians need money not police.
Houstonians need food not police.
Houstonians need relief not police.
🗣️🗣️🗣️
some of us need water
The people still without Lights tho can the cops they are sending help fixing the lights? 😢😢😢😢😢 A lot of people lost food can we get some Food Stamps? Where is the so called governor of Texas at. Help get the dam lights on and replace our food.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Call 211 they doing replacement stamps press option 8 hopefully that helps
@@stayblessedshannon2562 I am disabled also I work 20 hrs a week I didn't get Food Stamps. Lost some food but I will be ok it's a lot of people that are in worse
@@stayblessedshannon2562 thank you but I am not on FS.
@@annettajackson2302me neither I'm seeking food stamps for people above the income limit....us middle class who arent rich nor poor enough for stamps ....replacing food is a huge burden !
It is absurd that one electric company is allowed to service any city or community. They are not held accountable and repeatedly fail to provide proper restoration for the electricity when a heavy storm hits. Something needs to be done to change this. Hospitals without power, people sweltering, freezing and dying in their homes or elsewhere because profit over safety rules. I pray those that know what to do will act.
The authorities don’t know how to manage anything. Thinking in little compartmental boxes. Never pro-active.
When is Houston gonna smarten up. You keep these do nothing officials and politicians.
Retardation is quite common within the greater Houston area.
Check the stats.
Read the comments.😂
And allow monopolies on utilities. I wonder whose election campaign Centerpoint funds 🤔
@@frankt5987 from the drivers to the politicians I feel like I’m in a twilight zone episode daily
Thanks NTX for the help. Any help is good at this time.
Yay! They are sending more police officers to help get the electricity back on… wait a minute.
Sounds like they need doctors and electricians not ppl to sit in there cars and collect overtime pay
they worded it carefully but they needed cops to help deal with crime, not medical
Do you think criminals might be likely to target areas with no lights at night? Maybe they shouldn't worry about that and let the residents be robbed and murdered.
@@Quantrills.Raiders they mentioned literally zero crimes in this news story cops will literally use any excuse to collect more overtime and sit around
notice how they mentioned there just doubling up officers in the same amount of cars ? Gotta have ppl to hang with while your doing nothing
@@Quantrills.Raiders yup, they just got some deputies gunned down! I thought this was for that.
@@COMPUTER.SCIENCE. saw that too, a cop got shot by 44 year old man and flee the scene, this happened around Harris county
How they gonna help get the damn power on??
well an officer was killed damn straight they want a whole cavalry to find the guy under this thin veil of “ assisting hpd” 😂😂
Tornado in May and Hurricane in July. Houston is getting it's backside spanked!
nah we'll come out of it like we always do.
And the season is just getting started. We got this tho 💪, but we have incompetent leadership starting with governor hot wheels
Abbot is MIA
Thank you we need the help
Thanks all the city and states that have sent law enforcement to assist during this trail times for all of us folks in Houston
What does this comment even mean? What are “trail times”?
😂
Dear Dallas, Austin, thank you for sending some of your finest so that Houston’s can take a minute to fix their homes.
POWER not police.
Patrick needs to stop playing the blame game unless he start in his office. Invest in the infrastructure. CenterPoint doing the best they can with what they have. Send some of those funds y’all got stashed away.
Centerpoint Energy is a privately held co. They are the ones who have failed. Centerpoint needs to be accountable by spending their annual profits of $7.6 BILLION (from Texas consumers) to update, improve and implement an efficient emergency systems during crisis per the extreme weather conditions.
@@ledonwissner2200 100000000%
People forget that many of these essential workers face the same obstacles post Beryl but put their lives on hold to serve the community. They deserve our respect and thanks.
thank you
Greed breeds karma. 💯 😡
Are they going to arrest Abbot for being in cahoots with CenterPoint?
Facts!
😂😂😂😂
This was only a category 1, what happens when a 3 hits? Jeezus Christ this state needs to do way better! Fire hotwheels!!
The WEF hired him, not us!
Wouldn’t make more sense to bring in the national guard?
Sorry Tex, the NG is too busy at the southern boarder preventing against an invasion from China or somewhere?
No there’s no influx of crime
This is pointless
God please help great people of Houston
Will dallas PD actually come to he scene of a crime in less than 4 hours? Thats my average response time from harris county sheriffs office
Same as Dallas. We have a massive shortage of police and it been for the last 5 years. A lot more time for anyone to show up to defend and protect law abiding citizens. 2nd amendment is all we got but the justice system and officials here are liberal and soft on crime and criminal. Something has to change.
@@GettingthruLifethere is no shortage of police in Dallas. They just prioritize revenue whoring to actual public service.
@Don-mi6zl You have no clue. I have lived here 50+ years. I clearly know things you ignore don't follow what's going on. Police shortages nearly everywhere as cities and states defunded the police and stopped supporting them. Many long-term police retired early or quit. It's well documented recruiting is way down and departments are having hard times hiring new officers. Crime in Dallas now is off the charts and homelessness has taken over. Turned into awful places and a lot less safe.
But what exactly is the police going to do to help us get the power back on? We need electricity, no police enforcement. Do something!!
Thank you for your service be safe
Good. We need more law enforcement here in Houston.👍
Why? We need water, generators, food, and ELECTRICITY, not police officers. What is their true purpose?
Chief Eddie Garcia outstanding
Can they work the power? Cause as of 9:31 pm central we still without it.
Thank Y'all for the support, I remember after Harvey I seen a bunch of different Police Cars from different cities here in Houston the ones I remember was one from Dallas PD and one from Lubbock PD.
This still isn't near as bad as Ike was for Houston. We didn't have power for over a month.
So the copps are going to hook up the power😂😂😂😂!!!
"Calvary" was the site of a crucifixion. "Cavalry" is horse mounted troops.
Thank you!!!!
Looks like a feild trip for pigs with lots of OT
No power means more crime. Some business are still closed i believe.
The mayor will pay for cops but not properly negotiate with the lineman that come from other states.
❤thank you!
Texas strong 💪 H-Town 🤘🏻
Hang in there folks 🙏🏻
Remember it’s not 500,000 people, it’s 500,000 customers! Most customers have more than 1 person living in the home, there are still millions of people without electricity.
Where is the military industrial complex. I want to see imminently rapid deployment more national spending massive factories building cables and other materials and more stuff with worker engineers, sappers, Sturm Pioneers on the field. In less than a week it could be done upgrading everything. If Uncle Sam back 1941 could build a mighty military both earth sea and air combine why not now with all the high tech stuff. US is made of war economy model. It thrives on wars why not declare war on global warming and nature as threats to national security. A world Parody.
They can provide that service to other countries but not their own
Political grandstanding
What's really going on
Fr we needed cops ? Okay fine just no national guard like the poor state next to us that made that mistake
NICE JOB NORTH TEXAS! THANK YOU OFFICERS!!! Hella Texans…
I love Texans! Thanks dallas! 😊
Why in the Sam Hill do we need cops?
How do you like utility deregulation/privatization now?
It's hot
lol whats up with the light parade into town
Oklahoma sent OGE Power Company employees to assist the same day!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
So Glad that Crime is down in Dallas to send those folks there and taxpayers here are flipping the bill.
$100 this guy lives off the government 😂
We don’t need it anyway. Stupid move.
they know things are about to get crazy
My power didn’t go out for Ike or Harvey but went out with Beryl even before the storm kicked in 🤦♂️
This isn’t for the the citizens safety it’s for officers safety. One of their blue line gang members was ambushed the other night and with all power outages they can’t use their normal surveillance.
So basically their operating blindly
Basically don’t mess with a blue line and you can commit whatever crime you want.
Can we use them at the Harris County Jail.. Great idea.
Cant take this heat anymore..
Just for the record ,these guys are certified law enforcement by the state and not by the city. So, they're automatically certified to operate in Houston.
Why don't we have power cruise from Austin and the rest of the cities coming down here instead?
We're bringing in crews from Ohio which is on the other side of the country
Only 4 days? At least 1 week.
Better be ready Boys houston ain't bs Dallas or fw it's real dangerous down here. This ain't candyland how yall used to.
We don’t need cops we need to protect our own with out the fear of retaliation
We are still without electricity with small children and y’all are talking about SUNDAY to regain power and yall are sending cops ? Send more line workers so we can get power back faster‼️
My question is why were y’all sitting at the parking lot doing nothing near the amc theater? That’s my question. Why did one of their guys get fired when he was doing his job and only because he didn’t get a go from the company he got fired. Ask that question.
They're going to help at intersections. There have been many accidents. People are looting every night too.
y'all know houston is dem ran, right?
No one is asking, why or who Mis-Catergorize this storm..? Because if this was a Cat-1.. The Entire city is in trouble..
Going to be at least other week from now and people are hot and angry toward others
Dangerous times in Houston 😢😢😢
I didn't know police officers can help restoring power .. that's what they need more.
If so many people didn’t act like idiots they’re in a crisis and try to mess with everybody they wouldn’t even need extra police but here we are
Centerpoint seems to doing a great job this time considering the circumstanses. I am tired of the wah wah wah from those inconvenced by a temporary lack of electricity.
I'm sorry, but states in hurricane prone areas need to be prepared, it not just the utility company that's at fault, it's the state government of Texas that is ultimately responsible for their current situation. I love how the state government of texas loves to blame the utility company every time a natural disaster occurs in that state, yet they do nothing to change it.
Hilarious 😂. No electricity. No AC. 100 degrees.
Ok everybody against the wall. Hands up. Now on your knees. Stop resisting !,!
Wut the heck are they going to do to help stand around.. people need workers on the infrastructure not this I swear the infrastructure for this is falling to pieces not surprised since all we do is go into debt and throw money at Ukraine we need to work on our issues first this is just insane