Houston PD needs a serious cleaning out, starting with Acevedo

Acevedo says "we will continue to be vigilant in our processes and our systems and our audits," which implies that the Houston Police Department already was vigilant about potential abuses by narcotics officers. Yet the Chronicle found that the Narcotics Division had gone two decades without an audit. It also found that, despite an expert consensus that undercover officers should be frequently rotated to other assignments, 71 officers have served a decade or more in the Narcotics Division. Michael Doyle, a lawyer hired by Nicholas' family, says supervisors let the raid go forward even though they knew Goines had not properly documented his contact with the informant he described. Goines' belief that he could get away with inventing a drug purchase by a nonexistent informant does not speak well of the HPD's "processes."
He thought he could because he'd done it before.  God knows how many lives damaged and destroyed.  And the first thing Acevedo did was pump them up as heroes, and he kept doing it until the evidence became to great to deny. And now, among other things, we find out this. 

I hope the families of the deceased and wronged sue the ass off everyone involved.  Costing the city is probably the only thing that'll cause the bastards to actually do something about this.