Would Sheriff Dan Houston read the Caswell Report even if he could?

Let's say that Sheriff Dan Houston could get his hands on a copy of the Caswell Report, would he read it?

The Caswell Report is the final report by a private investigator. He was hired with public money, by public servants, within their public service. It is a public record. It contains the findings of an independent investigation into public corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS and its Police Department, link.

The report is a public record that names the names of APS senior administrators who committed felonies. It is being suppressed to protect APS senior administrators and the administration's reputation in the community.

If one were arguing that APS should not be allowed to investigate its own felony criminal misconduct, one would cite the Caswell Report and its subsequent suppression as evidence. But only if one were willing admit that the Caswell Report exists, and is being suppressed in violation of the Governmental Conduct Act.

Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston says, if the leadership of the APS doesn't stop using its publicly funded private police force to investigate felony criminal misconduct by APS administrators and board members, he will pull the plug on their commissions and put them out of business as anything but security guards.

He is manifestly less inclined to do anything about the fact that they currently are doing just that, in an ongoing effort to cover up the felony criminal misconduct of APS senior administrators.

This is classic good ol' boy problem solving; solve the problem
without admitting that you created the problem or allowed it
to persist.

Sheriff Dan Houston has an obvious need to prevent a recurrence. A lesser need apparently, to investigate, and perhaps arrest somebody over, the past and ongoing self-investigation of felony criminal misconduct and cover up.

As a courtesy among good ol' boys, he will end their public corruption without any one of them ever being held honestly accountable for it.

No heads will roll.

Even though then APS Police Chief Gil Lovato and his lawyer Sam Bregman once averred;

If the truth ever gets out, there won't be a single APS senior administrator left standing.

Houston will end up with an MOU that prohibits the practice of self-investigation of criminal misconduct, without ever having to admit that there is criminal self-investigation going on. And most importantly, without ever having to admit on the record, that APS senior administrators and board members are using their self-investigation privilege to hide their own felony criminal misconduct.




photo Mark Bralley