APS doubles down on coverup - promotes insider

The Albuquerque Public Schools has a police force;
not a police department, a police force.

It is a publicly funded, private police force.

Whatever other good they do, the force is also employed by the leadership of the APS in the capacity of a Praetorian Guard, wikilink. 

APS' police force has been rocked over the years by an unending series of scandals in its leadership, link.

It is important to draw a distinction between the leadership and the rank and file in APS' police force in terms of the manner in which the police force is being used to serve administrators and school board members by ordering individual officers to do things they wouldn't do, except that they are "just following orders", link.

When former APS Police Chief Steve Tellez was sent packing for allegedly helping himself to a felony amount public property, APS Deputy Chief Steve Gallegos stepped into the breach as Interim Chief.  He has now been made Chief.

Thus goes the "life cycle" in the leadership of APS' Police force.

1. the Chief is caught criminally abusing the public trust and
2. is sent away to a quiet place with a lot of money he doesn't deserve while
3. the then Deputy Chief, soon to be Interim Chief, soon to be Chief, completes an "internal investigation" 
4. whose results are made known to a handful of people in the leadership of the APS and then
5. are hidden from public knowledge and anyone else.  In recognition for his help
6. he is appointed Chief
7. in a hurried process that
8. completely overlooks any number of better qualified candidates.

Steve Gallegos investigated the criminal misconduct of his Chief Gil Lovato.  It was supposedly a criminal investigation.  Gallegos should have written a report.  Where is Gallegos' written report on the findings of the investigation he conducted personally into Gil Lovato's public corruption?

Is there a person on the planet with more guilty knowledge of the corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS than Steve Gallegos?

Another name for guilty knowledge is body map. 
As a member of the leadership of APS' Police force, one becomes privy to information that if it became public, would adversely impact power people.  The more buried bodies one knows about, the more powerful they become.

When Gil Lovato was trying to extricate himself from the trouble he was in, he got himself off the hook with APS  by suggesting that when he got to court, he would lay his body map out for the world to see.

APS lawyer Art Melendres told the Journal that Lovato's lawyer
Sam Bregman had told him, Melendres, that after Lovato testified,
there wouldn't be a single senior APS administrator left standing.

Gallegos has other contra-indicators, among them;

• Gallegos doesn't have the support of the rank and file.  He has already failed in a vote of no confidence, link.

• Gallegos cannot produce a record of regularly qualifying with the pistol he carries, link.

Gallegos is good for one thing.  He will do what ever he can do,
to make sure that the truth about the felony public corruption and
incompetence in the leadership of the APS is never produced to public knowledge.

Oddly, unfortunately, he will be helped
in that endeavor by the editorial staff of
the local newspaper of record.

Kent Walz and the Journal relentlessly
refuse to investigate and report upon
the ethics and accountability scandal
in the leadership of the APS.

They refuse relentlessly, to expose corruption and incompetence in the leadership of the APS.

They are helped in their endeavor Walz and the Journal's counterparts in the broadcast media. Walz out of his personal loyalty to school board members and superintendents; they out of the influence of former school board heavy hitter and President and CEO of the NM Broadcasters Association Paula Maes.

Maes actually announced during a meeting, that she; would never agree to any audit that individually identifies corrupt or incompetent administrators.

There is only one reason to hide the findings of investigations into allegations of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators.  It is to escape the consequences of those findings becoming known.

The leadership of the APS are getting away with it because the "credentialed" press and those who "credential" them, are in cahoots in an effort cover up the cover up of felony criminal abuse of the public trust by senior APS administrator and school board members.

Either that or what, exactly?

Seriously, how else do you explain what they are doing
right in front of your eyes?




The photo of Gallegos was take by me a few tens of minutes before I was ejected from the Gubernatorial Debate at El Dorado High School by Gallegos and a handful of their Praetorian Guard.

else, photos Mark Bralley