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Bryan Riser was charged last week with two counts of capital murder. AP Photo DALLAS: A Dallas police officer who was recently charged in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme was under investigation for longer than authorities have previously acknowledged, sharpening questions about why he continued to patrol the city as his colleagues looked into whether he was involved in a 2017 killing. After Bryan Riser was arrested on Thursday, former Dallas police Chief U Renee Hall said he was "first identified as a person of interest in 2019" and was kept on the job to avoid tipping him off to the inve...

The Dallas Police Department allowed Officer Bryan Riser to continue patrolling for more than a year while investigating whether he ordered two people to be killed because it didn't want to tip him off, the city's former police chief said.