First peek at the APS/BCSO MOU

On the agenda for the School Board Meeting tonight, link;

V(5).B.
Presentation of Options Relating to the APS Police Department (Discussion/Action)
Presenter: Superintendent Winston Brooks, Brad Winter, Chief Operations Officer, and Steve Tellez, Chief of APS Police Department.

The Board will discuss and take action on the Memorandum of Understanding, link, between the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office and the APS, regarding the issuing of commissions by the Sheriff to APS police officers. The MOU was written by the Sheriff and must be accepted by the leadership of the APS, before Sheriff Dan Houston will agree to continue to provide commissions for APS police officers (without which they have no police powers).

The MOU contains the following stipulations;

h. Any report of a crime which may be determined to be a felony offense, excluding property crimes, shall be promptly reported to and investigated by the BCSD or APD.

i. All crimes which may be determined to be felony offenses, including property crimes, shall be documented utilizing a New Mexico State Uniform Police Report and a copy shall be provided to the Sheriff within twenty-four (24) hours of the initial report.

j. Any evidence collected by APS police in relation to any crime that may be determined to be a felony, excluding property crimes, shall be submitted to BCSD or APD for tagging and safe keeping. The collection of such evidence will be subject to the requirement contained in provisions ‘j’ and ‘k’ below.

The APS police department leadership is in current violation of all three stipulations;

• they did not, and still have not, reported to the BCSD or APD, the felony criminal misconduct by APS senior administrators. link.
  
• they never provided the Sheriff or APD with a copy of a NM State Uniform Police Report on the public corruption in the APS Police Department, and
• the evidence and testimony collected by the APS PD in their self-investigation of their own corruption, still has not been turned over to the BCSO, the APD or anybody else, even District Attorney Kari Brandenburg, who has admitted that APS PD hasn't given her any evidence of the evidence of felony criminal misconduct.

The question then;
why would Houston accept their assurance that "they will never do it again" when they are currently doing what they're promising not to do?