You are looking live in a moment at the scene in albuquerque, new mexico, the Justice Department about to release its findings on the ewes of use of force by the Police Department. Since 2010 there have been more than 37 police shootings, 23 of them fatal. Heidi zhou castro is there, and joins us live by phone. What are we expecting to hear today . Were expecting a list of reforms from the department of justice. They have been investigating the Albuquerque Police department now for more than a year and a half. And were expecting to hear reforms regarding training, hiring officer, and how to deal with deescalation of Police Confrontations with suspects in particularly in dealing with the mentally ill. The city of albuquerque has been preparing for the announcements for quite a while. The police chief has asked for Million Dollars to fund the changes from the department of justice, including funding for extra training and the mayors goal for having 100 of officers trained in crisis inter
Commission will come to order. Madam secretary, if youll call the roll. President torres . Here. Vice president courtney . Here. Commissioner moran . Here. Commissioner vietor is on her way and commissioner caen is excused from todays meeting. All right, we have a quorum. Approval of the minutes. I know on page 10, i know commissioner vietor wanted to correct that as well. We can look at that. Is there a correction . Yes, on page 10, i believe, of the minutes. Theres some phraseology which i know commissioner vietor had. Referenced. Can we put off the minutes until she returns . Yes. Why dont we do that. I wanted to make sure she had an opportunity to make a comment. Public comments, please. Francisco dicosta. You wanted to talk on item 4 . I have two comments. Okay, Public Comment is now. Commissioners, i want to talk on a number of [speaker not understood] issues. So, i attended a meeting, its a committee that kind of evaluates the bond measure and the bonds and how they are spent. A
Rates. We know mitigation works. America is coming together to battle this disease. And we are starting to see progress. And thats the biggest news here. Social distancing does appear to be working. All that said, the world still has a long way to go in this flight. Globally more than 1. 3 Million People are infected and 76,000 people have died around the world. The United States suffered its deadliest day so far in the pandemic recording more than 1200 deaths in a 24hour period. Sadly bringing the total to more than 11,000 people. In spite of this, voters in wisconsin are headed to the polls today. Quite the experiment well see there in wisconsin after the Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned an executive order issued by the governor to delay inperson voting and the u. S. Supreme court cut off an order to extend absentee voting. Andrew cuomo said the number of cases in new york has grown to more than 138,000. The state has developed an Antibody Test to determine who had covid19 but the
Promising in the sense of what it means for where we might be in two weeks or four weeks or six weeks from now, but it also means that what is happening now is as bad as it gets. More than 32,000 americans have died. We had our highest single day death total again today and that devastation is going to continue. It will be dark for awhile. Were going to talk to a doctor on the front lines of that battle in a bit. But the other side of this, of course, is just the unprecedented and very widespread economic devastation, right . Jpmorgan chase just predicted that unemployment will hit 20 . Thats Great Depression levels. The unemployment claims weve seen are off the chart in terms of filing. Retail sales fell 8. 7 in march, the largest monthly drop on record. And this is all we should say hitting low income households the hardest. The survey conducted at the end of march found 21 of low income workers lost their jobs compared to just 9 of high income workers. Weve seen seemingly endless li
On that for you. Okay item should be ten. It is the discussion and possible action regarding ongoing litigation. Item 11 a. Is Public Comment on all matters pertaining to the closed session. And item, is there any Public Comment before we go to the vote to go to closed session . And seeing none, item b, vote on whether to hold closed session with legal counsel. Is there a motion to go to closed session . I move. Second. Okay. Commissioners in favor . Aye any opposed . We are now in closed session. It is 11 54 a. M. Item 11 d. Reconvene in open session to vote on whether to disclose any or all discussions held in the closed session. Is there a motion to reconvene in open session. Move to reconvene and not disclose. I second. Okay. All in favor . Aye. Aye. Any opposed . Are we done with that item . Item 12 is adjournment. Is there a motion to adjourn . Move to adjourn. Second. All in favor . Aye. Thank you, commissioners. Thank you. We are now adownedersinger, it is 12 10 p. M. Commissio