Governor Bill Richardson has decided that APS can wait at least another year to legitimize its Praetorian Guard.
Maybe by then, the leadership of the APS,
Darren White, and Kari Brandenburg will have told the truth about the public corruption and criminal conspiracy in the leadership of the Guard;
and the legislature can legislate accordingly.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
APS Police Force Not on Legislative Agenda
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They can't keep this lumbering mutant under wraps much longer, can they? I swear, for over 30 years APS Security-Police has been neither fish nor fowl. I say we should be able to say "our school security staff has a well-informed, regulated, supervised police contingent" or "our school security has no law enforcement responsibilities or powers and we concentrate exclusively on school related safety and security only".
You can have a little of both, but the legitimacy has to come if you want a true police agency to be effective and not abuse its power. The process of creating a police agency also mandates oversight of that agency.
APS should tell BCSD that if the Sheriff is not going to provide deputies for the crime on school grounds, then APS has NO right or legal foot to do so either.
Special Deputy commissions are for temorary measures to recruit posses or to do stopgap enforcement until the actual cops figure how to re-deploy. BCSD - you have had over thirty years to re-deploy your deputies to provide law enforcement services to schools, time for APS to say enough is enough.
Bill Richardson will fly to the mics & podiums with a speech about security in our schools after the next school incident. But being proactive about it is not politically correct.
Everyone reacts right after a school shooting with "We must!" But then it gets put on the back burner, yet again. I have no idea what it takes for this city, state and country to make school security & safety a part of the priorities.
imho; anything becomes a priority only by surpassing every other priority. In this case,including the personal priorities of the inner circle, the good ole boys.
Get rid of the good ole boys,
and then replace them with folks who will start making decisions that respect and reflect the public interest.
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