Why do criminal investigations of APS administrators take so long?

In June of 2007, the scandal in the APS Police force leadership, link, had been in the news for four months.  I wrote to then and current Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg and asked for a progress update on the investigation of allegations of felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators.

Among other things, link, she wrote in response;

"We cannot comment regarding specifics. The investigation is ongoing & being reviewed. It will take months before we make any decisions, as it is complex and we are working on many other things, too." 

Brandenburg's estimate was spot on.
It has taken months, 82.1  to be exact.
And, like Sheriff Dan Houston's
ongoing investigation; no end in sight.

Statutes of limitation on felony
criminal misconduct have expired long since.

In a later interview, she told me she couldn't do anything because APS hadn't turned over the evidence and she had no authority to make them produce it.

The "evidence" the findings of several investigations including a criminal self-investigation by the APS Police force, is still hidden from Brandenburg and from the people.  The current leadership of the APS is spending untold operational dollars trying to keep them secret.

If only the establishment's media weren't in cahoots,
we could hold them all accountable.




photo Mark Bralley