The Houston Police Department is facing a staffing shortage in a city with a growing population of 2.3 million.

The civilian side of the Houston Police Department, already hollowed out after years of cuts and attrition, faces an exodus of as many as 181 staffers in the coming weeks as veterans weigh whether ...

(Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle ... the upcoming budget, plans for a new police academy and security for the World Cup next year. Even so, Castro said, officers “were led to believe ...