Recycling

When Pat Lykos took over as D.A. of Harris County on January 1, 2009, she spent a lot of time garnering praise for herself by taking previously existing D.A. divisions, renaming them, and then claiming to have invented them.  One of the few things that she did actually create on her own was a Division (consisting of one person -- Russell Turbeville) that would be dealing with Cold Cases.

Don't get too fired up.  The Division wasn't as exciting as it sounds.  What they were really doing was looking up previously filed cases where an arrest had not been made (although the crime had been solved enough to have charges brought).  This Division basically just sees if they can get some movement from the involved police agencies to actually go arrest the accused folks on already existing warrants.  Although Lykos may take credit it for it, she ain't gonna be solving the Kennedy Assassination any time soon through this Division.

But this was an idea that Lykos got from Bill Exley's suggestion back when she first took office on 1/1/09.  It looks like she is stalling out in her campaign for attention, because apparently she decided to call in the news media to announce that she was creating it again.

It was a bold move by Lykos, who had not "created" this Division in over two and a half years since she last created it.  A bonus to her was that the article announces that she is going to "solve" crimes and it gives her the opportunity to talk about how awesome she is.

Speaking of solving crimes, how is the Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight doing on that whole "bullying investigation" that they were working on?  Solved it yet?

Didn't think so.