APS' self insurance

I'm cynical, so I think the leadership of the APS wants to self insure, in no small part, to keep a lid on the truth. All the mistakes that get made that cost taxpayers dollars, will be handled in secret from the people who are paying damages. The opportunities to conceal public corruption and incompetence will be increased. The culture of corruption and incompetence will be further enabled.

Despite all their talk about communication with the community, any real open and honest communications threatens their very existence.

Monica Armenta isn't being paid to
open communications, she is paid to
control them; she is paid to spin the
truth to make APS look good.

She is paid to have their backs;
to cover their asses.

Monica Armenta is paid to handle
the media. She's doing it quite well.

For example;

almost five years ago, some APS senior administrators ran some criminal background checks on a few whistleblowers and an Asst Supt's fiancé. The manner in which it was done constitutes felony criminal misconduct. They also moved some evidence (money) around, in violation of the law; also felony criminal misconduct.

They had their police department, their Praetorian Guard, conduct a self-investigation of their own public corruption and incompetence. No other agency of law enforcement investigated, or will, despite the fact that it was the Bernalillo County Sheriff's access to the NCIC database that was used to commit the felonies.

They are holding all of the evidence they gathered (assuming they gathered any at all) while statutes of limitation on the felonies, expire.

The self-investigation of felonies, and the holding of evidence of one's own felony criminal misconduct, are both specifically prohibited in the MOU Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston is trying to enforce upon the leadership of the APS.

In the face of the expiration of the statutes of limitation on felony criminal misconduct; Houston just gave them thirty more days of cover.

If you watch TV, you have seen KRQE, KOAT, and KOB, blow about their investigative Journalists defending our interests. Is this not a great story? Is this not a perfect story for investigation and reporting by the crack TV investigative reporters?

So why aren't they? Why isn't the Journal investigating and reporting on the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS?

Like I said, Monica Armenta is doing her job quite good well.




photos Mark Bralley