My personal experience serving 31-years with the Houston Police Department

Subsequent to having served as an infantryman in my beloved United States Marine Corps and attending undergraduate studies, I applied for and entered the Houston Police Department’s Training Academy in 1979. At that time, the Houston PD was a hard-charging, respected, law enforcement agency, the hiring process was stringent, physically, psychologically, ethically and morally. According to an academy instructor, for every seat in my academy class there were 19-denied applications for employment. Personal ethics and morality were the primary focus of the hiring process; these, verified by incredibly stringent and intimidating preliminary interviews and a thorough polygraph examination; this, culminating with an extensive “background check” involving months of door-to-door investigative interviews of the applicant’s family members, former employers, coworkers and friends.

WOKENESS, Political Correctness, Liberalism, Progressivism, creeps into the Houston Police Department…

In 1983, with the advent of the Kathy Whitmire Mayoral ship in Houston and the Affirmative Action hire of Police Chief Lee P. Brown, the Houston PD began a downward spiral in morality, ethics, reverse racial discrimination via Affirmation Action mandates. With the advent of “Neighborhood Policing” protocols and the implementation of an overzealous Internal Affairs Division, the Houston PD incrementally, but methodically, morphed into a pacifist, sissified, WOKE, police agency where “good” officers were those who avoided negative citizenry contacts, those officers who basically did NOTHING proactive and thereby avoided internal affairs complaints; this, becoming necessary protocol as the HPD Officer was denied “due process protections” concerning citizenry or supervisory allegations of policy infractions; this absence of due process protections against unfounded, spurious, complaints, mandated, as a matter of occupational survival, that the officer “prove his innocence” beyond ANY doubt, an investigative finding of “unfounded” concerning any complaint if said officer was to avoid a permanent record of complaint investigation/allegation in his/her Department Personnel File. Subsequent a specific number of complaints (of any disposition) in a specified time frame resulted in a “Personnel Concerns Committee Review;” this serious review of an officer’s complaint history could possibly result in termination of employment with the Houston Police Department. This overzealousness by HPD’s Administration and their “yes” boys in the Internal Affairs Division gave way to law enforcement impotence, apathy, laziness, a real fear of engaging in any proactive policing; therefore, the criminal thugs in Houston became emboldened as police routinely “look the other way,” the citizenry suffers and the Houston PD is shamed due mismanagement and policies that stymies law enforcement effectiveness.

Subsequent 8-years of patrol duty involving uniformed street patrol and an assignment in the Solo-motorcycle Patrol Detail, I transferred to the Helicopter Patrol Division in 1989 where I served just under two-decades, 18-years as a commercial patrol pilot. During those two-decades in helicopter patrol, I had lost touch with the street officers I patrolled with in Houston’s Downtown Districts during the early 1980’s; therefore, I was unaware of the embarrassing, liberal, changes that were manifesting within the Department, WOKE agendas that warred against true, effective, police patrol work. I heard the “rumors” from patrol officers who visited the helicopter hangar at Hobby, but I found their accusations and complaints difficult to believe; then, in 2009, due to a heated disagreement relevant to proper protocol over the recovery of a downed helicopter, I ran afoul of a new, arrogant, supervisory administration assigned to the Helicopter Patrol Division and ultimately requested a transfer back to patrol duties in 2009. Returning to uniformed patrol duties was indeed an eye-opening experience subsequent 19-years in the Air Support Division. What those patrolmen had been complaining about when visiting the helicopter hangar, the immorality, the inability to perform police work, an overzealous Internal Affairs Division, an out-of-touch Administration, was indeed TRUE. The Houston PD of 2009 was NOT the Houston PD I had worked for two-decades earlier as a patrol officer on the streets of Houston.

My Houston PD had become a bastion of LGBTQIA++ immorality, DEI-Affirmative Action discrimination, a lowering of hiring standards allowing the mentally, morally, ethically and spiritually ill to receive employment with the HPD; Homosexuals, Trans, Lesbians, were welcomed into the HPD; it is my understanding that certain applicants with “criminal histories” were permitted to apply for employment with the Houston PD; HPD had become something I no longer recognized. I voiced and demonstrated my disgust for LGBTQ sexual deviancy in the HPD during mandatory in-service training classes (sensitivity training), sexual deviance stemming from mental and spiritual illness that was wearing the uniform, the badge, a weapon and allowed to police the streets of Houston and placed in supervisory capacities as well; this, my objections to compromise with LGBTQ in the HPD resulting in subtle forms of backlash from the morally and ethically compromised HPD Administration. My Assistant Chief in the Helicopter Division was a lesbian; my Divisional Captain in patrol, subsequent my transfer from Helicopter Patrol, was a lesbian. The subtle friction between the HPD and me was exacerbated by my concerted efforts to enforce City Ordinance 30-3 (Noisy Vehicles Generally) and Texas, 547-604 (Muffler Required), subsequent my transfer back to patrol duties in 2009.

Motor vehicle noise enforcement, the straw that broke the camel’s back,

My patrol beat assignment in West Houston had, within its jurisdictional boundaries, a very popular biker bar “The Dam Ice House” (a LOUD, thug inundated, vulgar, biker bar that I’m proud to have assisted in its closure) and just outside my jurisdictional boundaries was another biker bar in Harris County, located on FM 1093/Westheimer Road in far west Harris County. The LOUD, vulgar, dishonest, biker thugs who frequented these unscrupulous biker bars were operating illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motorcycles with illegal aftermarket exhaust mechanisms emitting noise energy output that was audible for one-statute mile under hard acceleration, noise energy and missing motorcycle muffler labeling mandates obviously in violation of the protective requirements of CFR 40 Part 205; to my amazement, no one, absolutely NO ONE, was doing anything about the unacceptable vehicular NOISE situation in Houston. The vehicular NOISE bully thugs who abuse our most innocent with illegal vehicular noise energy were and are operating on the public roadways of Houston, Harris County, Fort Bend, Galveston County, Texas, unencumbered by law enforcement. Why?

Illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motorcycles, trucks, automobiles, inundated my beat assignment in west Houston, the citizenry, especially the most vulnerable to the illegal vehicular NOISE, were and continue to be audibly assaulted day and night, 24/7/365. My efforts to bring peace and lawful order to my beat was met with incredible rebuttal, hatred, vulgar and life-threatening comments, by LOUD bikers, while biker rights organizations, such as the Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) interceded on behalf of their donors in Washington DC; later, the MRF published lies about my retirement status in their newsletter seeking to disparage my professional reputation; the local news media in Houston took the side of the criminal LOUD biker thugs; the biased media waited outside my traffic court to interview bikers subsequent their adjudication relevant to illegal NOISE; my 99.9% conviction-rate on vehicle noise emissions citations/adjudication mandated extra HPD security in my court for my personal safety as vulgar, criminal, bikers threatened retaliation; consequently, my immediate supervision ran scared and confused; my Department’s upper echelon cowed to the concerns over liability; the Mayor’s Office and the City Council ran scared of the biker thugs who rallied en masse at City Hall on two different occasions, threatening the City Council and Mayor with retaliation if my enforcement efforts were not stopped. I was prohibited by order to not attend the biker rallies, protests, at Houston’s City Hall.

I had never, in my 31-years of service to the citizens of Houston, TX, seen such cowards and pacifists and compromised law enforcement personnel as I did during my years of vehicular NOISE enforcement in Houston. What a defiled, compromised, can-of-worms that had been opened via noise enforcement; this, for all to see, the odor was nauseating, vile and embarrassing. I was NOT aware that I was employed by such cowards and ethically compromised leadership. To my amazement, some of my most avid haters and detractors were law enforcement personnel who compromised their oath of office and their personal integrity via membership in a local Law Enforcement Biker Gang. Sworn, accredited, law enforcement officers who dress, walk, talk, like thug biker gang members while they wear a badge and gun and patrol the streets of Houston, Harris County. These law enforcement biker thug organizations/gangs are present throughout the United States and nothing is done by their individual department’s or the Federal Bureau of Investigations to stop the thug conduct of those who ride illegally LOUD, act and talk like biker trash, while employed as a public servant.

My patrol Sergeant, who drove an illegally LOUD racing Corvette to 6AM roll call, ordered me to STOP enforcing the vehicular noise laws to which I rebutted and challenged his unlawful order with legal precedent, Arron C. Aguilar v. State of Texas (2008); Aguilar provides legal precedent relevant to law enforcement’s right to stop and investigate loud motor vehicles based solely on an officer’s personal opinion as to the vehicle’s illegality. The Houston City Legal Department overturned the Sergeant’s unlawful order; this legal victory over my immediate supervision drove an unforgivable wedge between my NOISE enforcement efforts, my immediate supervision, the police administration; both, the Mayor’s office and the City Council; after all, who was this old patrol officer possessing the audacity to challenge the omnipotence of Houston’s Police Administration and supervision? How dare he!

The culmination of the shame I felt for serving a Department that compromised its integrity with the filth and immorality of LGBTQIA++; the unfairness of DEI; having had my promotion to Sergeant stolen through Affirmative Action mandates and having had the blatant reverse discrimination upheld by the 5th Circuit; having lesbians placed over me in supervision in two separate divisions within the HPD; watching my immediate supervision, my Police Administration, the Mayor’s office, the City Council, run pathetically scared from biker rights organizations and cower to the threats from thug LOUD bikers in Houston; after having been put on desk duty pending LOUD biker’s spurious complaints and the Administration’s cowardliness to stand with me and support my lawful efforts to provide intercession for the vehicular NOISE beleaguered citizen’s in Houston; finally, my poor wife and I both had enough of the pathetic nonsense; therefore, I honorably retired in 2011 with a broken heart remembering what my HPD was in 1980 and what it had become as of 2011. Cowards all. Houston, Texas has become the Sodom of the South; unfortunately, the Houston PD has become a morally compromised version of exactly what Progressive-WOKE Houston deserves as its Law Enforcement entity.