Once upon a time, there was a corrupt and incompetent Chief of APS Police

The time was up to and including 2006.

The incompetent and or
corrupt  Chief of APS
Police was Gil Lovato.




His Deputy Chief was Steve Tellez.

When Lovato was sent packing,
Tellez stepped up as interim chief
and was in charge when the APS
leadership self-investigated their
corruption and incompetence.

The person who actually conducted
the criminal investigation was
Steve Gallegos.

Steve Gallegos watches as Monica Armenta orders officers under
his command to eject me from a school board meeting;
something she had absolutely no authority to do.  Ironically,
Gallegos eyes were closed as I snapped the photograph.

Gallegos findings were never turned over to the DA for criminal prosecution of senior APS administrators who had committed felonies; making him golden.

The investigation of the corruption and incompetence of a Chief of Police cannot help but be a coincidental investigation of the corruption and or incompetence of the Deputy Chief.

Steve Gallegos investigated the character and competence of his boss Steve Tellez.  He could have found only two things;

1. Tellez had guilty knowledge or willful ignorance of the corruption surrounding him, and was therefore corrupt himself, or
2. Tellez genuinely had no knowledge of the corruption swirling around him and was therefore manifestly incompetent.

Nevertheless Tellez was promoted to Chief in secret, link,
and Gallegos and his body map were promoted to Deputy Chief.

Now Tellez has been fired and guess who gets to be Chief.
If you guessed; the guy with the body map, you have guessed correctly.

There were any number of more qualified candidates for the job.
Gallegos got the job for a reason. 
The search for and, the selection of a  new chief were kept secret for a reason.

Tellez leaves.  Gallegos becomes Chief.

And a candid, forthright and honest accounting still has not been given for the incompetence and corruption in the leadership of their publicly funded private police force. 

Public records are still being hidden from public knowledge.

APS police officers standing between me and the public forum;
"just following orders"; Esquivel and Tellez' Banning Letter

If this is not the appearance of impropriety what is?

If the credentialed press' coverage of the ethics and accountability scandal in the leadership of the APS is not Journalistic malpractice, what is?




photos Mark Bralley except as noted.