Izaiah Garcia is in the Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting his trial for the murder of Cayla Campos. Now, while in jail, Garcia picked up a new charge inside MDC.
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Members of an Albuquerque Police Department SWAT team respond to a shooting near Bianchetti Park in October of 2019. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
RE: (April 27 article:) “APD union launches campaign against ‘endless DOJ oversight ”
… Let’s talk about “crime matters more.”
The DOJ oversight would not be endless if the DOJ recommendations were fulfilled. That would end the expenditure of monitoring APD, and the cost would not be endless.
Spending $70K on a campaign to question “how hard it is just to succeed” is how former APD officer, now police union president, Sean Willoughby is looking for support. His argument, that officers are removed from duty by a “bureaucracy” “because somebody that was not used force on said, ‘ow’ ” is a despicable slight against Albuquerque residents who have registered legitimate use-of-force complaints against APD offi