APS police officers, forget about carrying guns for a long time

The policy change didn't make it past Robert Lucero and Delores Griego. Additional language will be added to the suggested policy change and run by the policy committee yet another time. The next policy committee meeting is two weeks off; the next board meeting two weeks after that.

It has been a month since the board passed a motion that would arm APS Police. It will now be at least another month before a motion can pass through the policy committee and full board.

All the leadership of the APS had to do to arm police officers 24/7 was to write the policy changes and the pass the policy changes by the policy committee and then by the full board.

The entire change in board policy amounted to striking one sentence.

The entire change in procedural directives added one paragraph.

It could have been done already;
it would have been done already;

if that were really the will of the leadership of the APS.