According to Jessica Garate's report, the BCSO became involved when a counselor at Atrisco called them directly. Why?
I have not spoken to the counselor; this represents my surmise.
APS employees do not trust the APS Police Department. Teachers often try to involve APD or BCSO instead of the APS PD for exactly this reason.
Which is not to say that they do not trust APS Police Officers individually; or that individually the officers of the APS PD are untrustworthy.
There is a feeling among employees that the leadership of the APS covers ups incidents which reflect poorly on the district, or bring attention to the district in unwanted ways. There is also a feeling among APS employees that district administrators cover each other's asses; even at the expense of deliberately misleading stakeholders.
The recent audit by the Council of the Great City Schools reported;The annual statistical crime report ...may be inaccurate and possibly misleading. The team was advised that there is a prevailing culture of under-reporting incidents to improve the image of the district and individual schools.
The Praetorian Guard was formed in the first place; not to protect students, but to protect administrators and board members. It is a publicly funded private police force, accredited and certified by no one, except the leadership of the APS. By keeping investigations of ethical and criminal misconduct "in house" they are able to keep them off the front page.
Again, I make no allegation concerning any individual member of the rank and file of the APS PD.
The responsibility for this unethical and possibly criminal misuse of the APS Police Department falls upon the shoulders of the leadership of the APS.
It is they, who are stilling secreting from public knowledge, the results of the impartial investigation of the public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the leadership of the APS (police department).
File under "D",
for "dirty little secrets" that the district keep.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
How Did BCSO Get Involved in the Atrisco Incident?
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Under reporting, mistrust? You got that right on!
FYI
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/sep/07/editorial-school-board-was-right-vote-armed-cops/
Quoting from the Journal this morning, two things raise red flags.
When Corona called APS police, the dispatcher told the principal she had violated the substitute teacher's rights by watching the video and told her to return the video and the camera to the teacher, the report says.
The substitute teacher took his video camera when he left the school Wednesday. Corona called the Sheriff's Department the next morning to file a report.
This is Corona's first year as principal and her first at Atrisco. Last school year, Corona was an assistant principal at Washington Middle School.
Her transfer sparked controversy, because Atrisco is a failing school. The transfer violated a state Public Education Department mandate requiring that principals with experience be selected to lead failing schools. An exception can be made if the district can justify "outstanding leadership skills."
A councilor at the school first alerted the Sheriff’s Dept. Looks like Corona’s call is more evidence of CYA after the fact. Corona was part of Nelinda Venegas haul from El Paso along with Elsie Fierro and Corona’s husband. All part of that infamous principal shuffle. Did any one notice that Taylor’s middle school principal and vice principal did their own preemptive move when last may , on the last day of school, they announced they were moving to a charter? Of course it took until 2 weeks ago for APS to advertise the position on their web site. Just one more piece of fallout from the principal shuffle. I hear an awful lot of them are NOT hitting the ground running, not just Corona.
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