Journal
editors censored my letter to the editor this morning. The letter was about the amount of money the
leadership of the APS is spending on their own office spaces instead of in
classrooms and schools.
One of the
things on which they choose to spend operational dollars (dollars otherwise
destined for classrooms and schools), is a publicly funded private police
force; a modern Praetorian Guard. link
It is
important to note; individually, APS police officers are decent men and women. They’re
just following orders; with few notable exceptions. link
They carry
commissions (read badge and guns) from the Bernalillo County Sheriff. The MOU between the Sheriff’s Office and the
APS prohibits them (or used to) from self-investigation of felonies. That was made necessary by their police force’s
self-investigation of state and federal felonies committed by senior
administrators in the APS Police force.link
No evidence
was ever turned over to the DA for her consideration for prosecution or not.
The language
the editors struck had to do with the fact that the board’s Praetorian Guard is
a police “force” not “department”. A
major distinction between the two being their loyalty; one to the law, the
other to board members and (senior) administrators.
Isn’t that
the kind of allegation that a decent newspaper would look into as opposed to
erasing out of hand?
What are they
trying to hide?
Is there even a such
thing as a Praetorian newspaper?
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