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Audit criticizes Houston police unit tied to fatal drug raid

by Associated Press
| July 2, 2020 1:27 PM

HOUSTON (AP) — An audit of a Houston Police Department narcotics unit that’s been under scrutiny following a deadly 2019 drug raid found that officers made hundreds of errors in cases, often weren’t thorough in their investigations, lacked supervision and overpaid informants for the seizure of minuscule amounts of drugs.

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