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Houston leaders mark 40th annual March on Crime, stress recruitment and cross-agency collaboration
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City and law enforcement officials at HPD’s briefing room on March 3, 2025, marked the Houston Police Department’s 40th annual March on Crime campaign and emphasized officer recruitment, interagency “surges” in nine hot spots, youth intervention and household gun safety.
Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Houston Police Department officials on March 3 proclaimed the city’s 40th annual March on Crime campaign and used an HPD briefing to emphasize recruiting officers, coordinating multiagency enforcement surges and promoting household crime-prevention steps.
Keith Smith, deputy director of the Office of Community Affairs at the Houston Police Department, opened the announcement by tracing the campaign’s history to 1984 and noting that it expanded to Latino communities two years later and became citywide in 1991. He said partner agencies from Harris and Fort Bend counties and the Texas Department of Public Safety participate in the effort year-round.
“Public safety should be our number 1 priority, because if we're not safe, nothing else matters,” Mayor John Whitmire said. Whitmire said the city is…
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