Journal editors selective outrage over APS bungling

This morning's editorial link, a previous editorial, link, and a nearly month old Journal promise; "we will not stop digging", link, in to the matter of an apparently corrupt APS administrator, would lead one to conclude that Journal editors are more than a little irked over the situation.

As well they should be.

Which is not to say that there are things they should be more irked by, not the least of which are;

• the years long cover up of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators in the leadership of APS' publicly funded private police force and

• the nearly four months long investigation by the Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department of the most current felony criminal misconduct involving still another APS Police Chief, Steve Tellez

So why are the editors so worked up over APS' handling of the Knauber case and so utterly disinterested in the others?

It's a fair question.

Why won't the Journal report that APS withheld evidence and testimony in the 2006 scandal, link, from the DA until statutes of limitation expired and still?

Why won't the Journal report that the leadership of the APS is still spending tax dollars to this day, to hide public records of findings of investigations into felony criminal misconduct involving senior administrators?

Why won't the Journal start digging to find out who is holding up the investigations being done by the BCSD?

What if Winston Brooks and the leadership of the APS are the still secret third party that BCSD PIO Aaron Williamson says, link, are holding up filing felony criminal charges against Steve Tellez?

There is a simple explanation.

The Journal editors are ashamed of their continuing participation
in the ongoing cover up of the 2006 scandal and now they want
to start doing a better job of informing the democracy.

The problem of course, is they cannot report credibly on corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS, without first reporting credibly on their failure to report credibly on incompetence and corruption in the leadership of the APS, heretofore.

Journal Editor Kent Walz cannot report credibly, for instance, on his collaboration with Marty Esquivel to give APS Supt Winston Brooks a Dixon Award for heroes of transparency, at the very same time the three of them were busily covering up Brooks' cover up of corruption in the leadership of APS' Praetorian Guard, link.

Walz, though it is of some consequence to Journal readers, will not report that Marty Esquivel et al have spent three quarters of a million dollars already, and are fully prepared to spend a half million more at least, in defense of Esquivel's ego.

Ever wonder why the Journal will never respond to questions about their selective coverage of the leadership of APS including their failure to dig at all into public corruption in the leadership of their police force and beyond?

Except that they need to hide the truth of their complacency at best, or their complicity at worst.




photos Mark Bralley