The Journal coverage of APS Police Chief Steve Tellez' situation is so far, inadequate to the need, link.
There is the issue, or not, of corruption and incompetence in the leadership of APS' publicly funded private police force. Interest holders need to know about the conduct and competence of a heavy hitter in Supt Winston Brooks' inner circle.
How else are community members to hold Brooks accountable for promoting Tellez to Chief considering the cloud, link, that hung over Steve Tellez then and does still now ? Brooks swears he had only sketchy knowledge of the scandal that embroiled Tellez, at the time he promoted him.
How else are community members to hold school board members accountable for allowing Winston Brooks to use their publicly funded private police force as a Praetorian Guard; a police force admittedly accountable directly to, and only to, the leadership of the APS.
The Journal reported this morning;
Tellez has been acting APS chief at least twice according to Journal archives, although it’s unclear when he was appointed chief and Armenta said late Monday night she didn’t know promoted in secretHe was promoted in August 2011. According to our archives, link, he was promoted in secret which is why news of his promotion is not, in fact, in Journal archives.
I find myself wondering how Monica Armenta could not have heard about Steve Tellez being made Chief of Police.It would have been her responsibility at the time to have communicated that happy news on their award winning website and through her extensive connections to the establishment media.
It would have been her job, or at least her ultimate responsibility to let the Journal know that Tellez had been promoted.
Was Tellez promotion kept secret from her as well?
Maybe she just missed the memo.
Or maybe either possibility is a pill too big to swallow,
except apparently for the Journal staffer
who gulped them right down.
photo Mark Bralley
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Info down below on APS Police from APS website. Clearly, Tellez is APS Police Chief, but APS communications director does not know when he was named chief? Seriously? Brooks knows. You stated in one of your blogs last year that Brooks in his deposition regarding your lawsuit against APS did indeed promote Tellez to APS police chief. The Journal should be asking Brooks and not Armenta for information on Tellez. When will the District Attorney step up to the plate to investigate numerous shady practices in APS (Police)?
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