Democratic Houston mayor John Whitmire accepted the resignation of the Texan city’s chief of police as an investigation into over 264,000 suspended cases mounted Wednesday, The Associated Press (AP) reported. These cases that were not properly investigated include more than 4,000 cases of sexual assault, according to the AP. An internal department computer code suspended these cases from investigation due to insufficient sworn officers, the Houston Tribune reported. The city mayor’s office posted on Twitter that Whitmire still considered chief of police Troy Finner as a friend but believed tha…