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By way of Lawrence: the city of Fulshear, Texas fired their chief of police, Kenny Seymour. (Fulshear is a suburb of Houston.)

Why?

It seems like he was in a relationship with a police captain. Sleeping with your subordinates is generally what we call “bad”.

According to the investigator, sworn interrogatory responses from Seymour’s divorce case showed a prolonged sexual relationship with the subordinate. The investigator also said Seymour had a financial entanglement with the captain, including providing money for rent, plane tickets, and other expenses.

Could be worse, though. The city of Trinidad, Texas (which looks to be roughly between Corsicana and Athens) had their license to have a police department revoked.

According to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE), investigators from the commission conducted a law enforcement agency inspection of the police department on Aug. 5. The findings from their inspection revealed that Trinidad PD failed to meet the minimum standards law enforcement agencies are required to follow by state law.

Everyone who has a license from TCOLE has to “separate” from the department.

I prefer to use local or semi-local sources when I can, but the NYPost has a longer article. Part of this seems to be related to the arrest of Jennifer Combs. Ms. Combs made a post on Facebook “alleging that bacteria in Trinidad’s water pipes had hospitalized residents”. She was arrested for “felony false alarm or report”.

Police defended the arrest, claiming Combs’ post had created “fear, panic, or unnecessary emergency response within a community” — despite the city itself posting a notice urging residents to boil their water to “avoid harmful bacteria” on April 21, weeks before her arrest.

The police also arrested another person:

Police also arrested a supporter of Combs, citizen journalist Winston Noles, for misdemeanor disorderly conduct after he displayed a “f–k bad cops” sign outside city hall, FOX 4 reported.

The police chief, Charles Gregory, resigned in June.

After his resignation, the judge who approved Combs’ search warrant wrote a scathing letter questioning “the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of information” two Trinidad officers had presented to him and Gregory’s leadership.
The Henderson County District Attorney’s Office announced in August it would stop taking cases from the department following the state’s investigation.
Separately, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality found issues with Trinidad’s water supply — the very concern Combs had raised — which city officials have since promised to address.

There were some other issues.

The action followed an Aug. 5 investigation in which the department was found “unable to provide evidence that the agency provides public benefit to the community” and lacked 18 required policies, including ones on use of force, vehicle pursuit, professional conduct and active shooters, the commission said.

According to another story, the department had five full-time and “several” part-time officers. The population of Trinidad was 860 in 2020.

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