APS Police won't be able to investigate their own felony criminal misconduct anymore

Under guidelines proposed in a closed meeting between
Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston and APS leadership;
if there is more public corruption in the leadership of the
APS PD, they will no longer be allowed to investigate themselves.

According to the Journal, link, the draft "memorandum of understanding" between the leadership of the APS and the BCSO contains the following stipulation;

Any report of a felony, excluding property crimes, shall be reported to and investigated by the city police or county sheriff.

It would appear that the stipulation is in response to a self-investigation of felony criminal misconduct involving APS senior administrators and APS' Police Department, link. The criminal misconduct should have been investigated by an outside agency, not by the APS Police Department itself.

Houston is apparently willing to let that all slide, if they just agree to not do it again.

Nevertheless, Houston has come under fire from APS School Board Member Kathy Korte. She claims that Houston is only making trouble for APS in retaliation for their intention build a sports complex in Houston's neighborhood.

Houston takes umbrage at the suggestion.

In the press conference he claimed; “In that 28 years, my integrity, my honesty or my truthfulness has never been brought into disrepute.”

That he won't do anything about the leadership of the APS and their cover up of just such an inappropriate self-investigation of felony criminal misconduct; that he is apparently willing to ignore previous felony criminal misconduct in exchange for some meaningless promise that they won't do it again, creates the very disrepute he claims doesn't exist.




photo Mark Bralley