Violent crime perpetrated by juveniles age 14 to 17 is at its highest rate in four years in Albuquerque, according to a presentation to a state legislative committee on Thursday.
It s been years in the making, but on Tuesday the Albuquerque Rapid Transit bus station at Central and San Pedro finally saw the first ART buses picking up a.
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The public should find the latest Albuquerque Journal reporting by Elise Kaplan illuminating, “Monitor blasts APD for failure to police itself” (Nov. 7), as it confirms, yet again, the ongoing failure of the boondoggle known as APD reform. True to form, while taking no personal responsibility for this failure, Monitor James Ginger uses the media to remind the public, once again, how many years of successful “monitoring” he’s accomplished. If Ginger is as experienced as he believes, why didn’t he use his bully pulpit to inform the public, his employers, of the systemic flaws in the Department of Justice’s substandard Court Approved Settlement Agreement – centered on departmental bookkeeping vs. restructuring a criminal police department into community-centered and -led law enforcement?