In situations like these I'm told, the criminal investigation normally takes place before an administrative investigation is done.
There would have to be a good reason to do otherwise.
APS jumped the gun and hired Robert Caswell Investigations to begin and complete their own investigation before detectives from the Sheriff's Department were sent in.
The bass ackwards order may complicate the criminal investigation and may have been the whole point in rushing Caswell in, in the first place.
One distinction between the Houston investigation and the Caswell investigation will be the availability of the truth to interest holders.
The Houston findings, I am presuming, will be redacted according to the intent of the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act, and then be made available for inspection and or copying.
Caswell's findings, in stark contrast, will be hidden behind a wall of loop holes, technicalities, and legal weaselry. It will never be seen again. It will be redacted from the cover page to the last period.
The findings from a Caswell investigation in 2007, into the same kind of corruption in the leadership of APS' publicly funded private police force, are still hidden from public knowledge.
Another distinction between the findings is, if Sheriff Dan Houston chose to hide his findings from public knowledge, there would be an outrage in the media. The Journal and the NM Broadcasters Association affiliates, KRQE, KOAT, KOB TV wouldn't let him get away with it.
That APS Supt Winston Brooks chooses to hide, in their entirety, the findings of two private investigations into felony criminal misconduct involving APS police chiefs and other senior APS administrators, does not seem to outrage the media in the least.Make of that what you will.
What I make of it is, they are in cahoots in their cover up.
photos Mark Bralley
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