New APS Police force scandal

When I told a KRQE reporter that APS Supt Winston Brooks told a board member to get a gun to take me out, link, I was told the story was "too old".  Same guy, same attitude, but it happened too long ago to report on it.

When I brought up the APS police force scandal, link, during public forum, then School Board Member David Robbins complained that I was bringing up an "old" story.  It was about three years old at the time, and about the time that statutes of limitation on the felony criminal misconduct in question, elapsed.

Immediately following scandalous behavior involving APS board members or senior administrators, the cover up begins.  It doesn't end, ever.  The initial incompetence or corruption gets old, but the cover up never ages a day.

Every morning, the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS police force begins anew.  Every morning is the first morning of the rest of the cover up.

Monday morning, APS Director of Communications Rigo Chavez will be deposed.

It will be his job to explain, under oath, why the findings of at least three investigations into felony criminal misconduct involving APS senior administrators in and around the leadership of APS' publicly funded private police force, have never been produced in response to public records requests.

The findings are public records and subject to production under the NM Inspection of Public Records Act.  The decision of the leadership of the APS to redact the entire contents of at least three public records is  unjustifiable under the law. 

They are hiding the truth.  They are hiding the names of senior administrators who were involved in felonies.  They are hiding the names from the people and from their public prosecutor District Attorney Kari Brandenburg.

Just as every morning is the first morning in the rest of
Kent Walz and the Journal's part in the  cover up.




photo Mark Bralley