Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo announced recently that are hiring new 400 positions. He is inviting the defunded police across the country to apply in the new positions.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo told the "Fox and Friends Weekend" on Sunday that they will be hiring new 400 police officers. His priority is the police officers who were defunded across the country. During the interview, he announced that the Houston Police Department is hiring.

Acevedo said that Houston is very fortunate because they have a mayor and a council that understands the community does not want less policing, does not want to defund the police, they want better policing, and they want good cops.

He made the comments amid the growing push across the country to defund the police following the death of George Floyd that caused nationwide violence and peaceful protests. It also includes African-Americans who died under police custody.

However, Houston will hire 400 new positions instead of defunding the police department. Acevedo is inviting the police officers who were aid off from their department across the country to join their rank. For as long as the police officer has no record of any form of brutality and racism issue.

Meanwhile, local governments in other parts of the country like in Austin, Texas considered to cut and to defund their police departments. They voted to cut off the budget in an amount of $150 million. However, Houston's decision is to hire.

Acevedo noted that he wants to implement a new program making it easier for out-of-state officers to take positions on Houston's force. He said, "if you have three years of honorable service, with a good service record and you want to come here, instead of a six-month academy, it's a 10- week academy."

Following it, the qualified applicants or those who will pass will be put on-field training and they will make sure that these police officers will subscribe to the values of the city and the department as they become part of the Houston Police Department.

When he was asked if how he will ensure that Acevedo will not just hire police officers but also those with accelerated training, he said that the hiring process is critical. Also the policies, and procedures and the training in their departments are critical.

Acevedo went on and said, "If you're going to come here to do the right thing, follow the training that's provided and actually treat people the way you'd want to treat your own family, then you're coming to the right place, but if you want to be one of them, I call them the 'bushels of apples of bad cops' because there's more than just a few bad cops, don't come to Houston."

This is a big challenge for the Houston Police Department Chief Art Acevedo to hire more police officers amid the crisis police officers are facing across the country due to police brutality and other related racist issues.

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