Robert Caswell rides again!

KOAT TV has reported that Robert Caswell Investigations will investigate the allegations of employee misconduct leveled at APS Police Chief Steve Tellez.  As a matter of fact, I'm told that they have already begun the administrative investigation by interviewing witnesses.

Ive also been told that, by beginning the administrative investigation before the criminal investigation is complete, the leadership of the APS has effectively thwarted the subsequent filing of criminal charges over the felony theft of a bunch of rifle ammo that fits an assault rifle just like Steve Tellez likes to shoot.

It's not Caswell's first rodeo on Uptown Blvd.

Caswell investigated the incompetence and corruption in the APS Police force leadership in 2007, link.  As part of that investigation he must have investigated the complacency or complicity of the second in command Steve Tellez, and the current commander of APS' publicly funded private police force, Steve Gallegos.

Sworn testimony indicates that Caswell didn't do actually do the last investigation; they farmed it out because of the appearance of a conflict of interests in their investigation of the APS police leadership.  One wonders if that conflict no longer exists, or just Caswell's concern about it.

Adding to the appearance of a conflict of interests; Tellez used to work for Caswell before he came to APS.

The biggest problem; the last time Robert Caswell investigated corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS and its Police force, he turned the findings over the leadership of the APS and they haven't been seen since.

The leadership of the APS is hiding them still; spending ridiculous amounts of money trying to litigate an exception for themselves from public records law; an exception that doesn't apply.

The last time APS hired Caswell to investigate, the leadership of the APS promised the Journal the investigation would be complete in a couple of weeks and the results would be made public.

Seven years later, almost to the day, the (first) Caswell Report is still MIA.
As is the Journal's interest in it.

KRQE once asked for the (first) Caswell Report and then stopped asking for reasons to which I'm not privy.  Co-incidentally, APS School Board President Marty Esquivel is KRQE's lawyer.

KOAT is ahead of the pack right now; they found who the investigator is, and now they know why he was picked.

Now if they could just start insisting upon the production of all of the findings of investigations of public corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS Police force, and then report on the fact that the leadership of the APS isn't going to produce any of them.