The Eye receives many letters. This one caught our eyes. Below is an open letter to Albuquerque City Councilor Debbie O'Malley from (Ret.) APD Captain David Gilmore.
Councilor O'Malley,
I am responding to your comments in the Albuquerque Journal of March 25, 2012, regarding the payment of money to officers involved in "critical incidences." I served APD for twenty-five years retiring as a captain.
During my tenure I was involved in a high speed chase/gun battle. My only regret is that my aim was not more true as the offender years later shot and killed an APD officer, the son of a very good friend. I relate this fact to demonstrate that I have some feeling as to how the officers feel after such engagements. I cannot speak as to how officers deal with the fact of having killed someone.
I do not believe there is a single officer on the Department that goes to work wanting to shoot someone or to take the life of another. The thought of financial gain, as minute as it is in these cases, never crosses the mind of an officer who is put into a situation of having to use deadly force. Their main concern is to return to their family at the end of their shift.
I understand your concerns regarding the APOA's payments but, the mere fact that the officers are given three days off with paid leave plus counseling probably does little to console them. It is absurd and perhaps verges on the politically correct to call the APOA's small donation for the mental heath of an officer a "BOUNTY" as reported in the article. In view of the fact that neither you nor the Mayor will in all likelihood never know the experience of "dropping the hammer" on a person and the repercussions I would strongly urge you, Mayor Berry and the APOA to find a solution that is agreeable to all concerned. The City of Albuquerque must stand by its officers on all justifiable shooting no matter the count.
Regards,
David M. Gilmore
30 comments:
I think ray schultz needs to give the entire department the afternoon off this friday, no charge. He did it for his supervisors, now do it for the troops.
Only hammer the Mayor will ever drop is on Public Safety paychecks. Omalley is just a frog.
Shultz is a liar, and cares nothing about his officers. Come up with a way for a vote of no confidence.
Capt. Gilmore : Thank you for your letter, I couldn't agree with you more. I was a Police Officer for more than 30 years and thank God I never had to take a life. IN that time served I never met an Officer that wanted to take a life, all knew that someday they may have to. Having the means to get away after you are involved in that situation with a person you trust and can talk to is a very good thing for for our citizens, the Officer and their family. That Officer will second guess themself for the rest of their life, no matter what anyone says to them. For people to call this practice a bounty for political purpose just makes me sick !
Way to go Schultz, You fabricate yet another sensational bunch of crap to take the heat off of yourself. Fact is you lied about this one too. YOU KNEW THAT THE UNION FUNDS OFFICERS TO LEAVE TOWN AFTER SHOOTINGS. Your problems are not going to go away by creating morfe problems. You think the medis is going to help you. The media is going to be your demise. It has already recorded so many of your lies that WILL be used against you. You are the only police cheif in this country who is foolish enough to base your entire game on the media. It will be good to see you retire or resign in disgrace. A lie a day keeps the DOJ away huh? But it won't keep the civil litigation away pal. A liar needs to be stripped of his qualified immunity and someone else needs to own their bank account.
A note to the media:
You are just as stupid taking the bait. The media can't even stay on course. An article ran a couple weeks ago about misappropriations of funds within the APOA and now they want to make it about the $500 stipend paid to officers after shootings. It has nothing to do with that, yet you clowns listen to the spin put out by Schultz and Berry and how they are so flabbergasted. They lie to your faces and you fall for it every time like a fish to a shiny object.
Total lack of direction, talent, intelligence and ethics in reporting.
Hey do you all like the way the 5th and 11th floor got to choose who would run the APOA in the interm....Smells!!!! I for one will be pushing for any other candidate come election time.
Henderson & Weber are bought & paid for,! Folks We need to get someone in there who just don't give a shit or a rehire or both!
Dawne Roberto for President.... Talk about having a SET.... You GO GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Hey do you all like the way the 5th and 11th floor got to choose who would run the APOA in the interm....Smells!!!! I for one will be pushing for any other candidate come election time."
Hey dipshit, put your money were your mouth is and you run for the position.
"Henderson & Weber are bought & paid for,! Folks We need to get someone in there who just don't give a shit or a rehire or both!"
Please tell us how your little mind came to this conclusion. Another dipshit who is uniformed and creates false rumors. Please go back to your little hole and stay there.
Dawn roberto for union president.
I know Dawne Roberto very well. The union couldnt elect a better person to be President.
Dawne will fight for all of the offciers and stand behind them every time. She wouldnt let the chief or the mayor intimidate her. My husband, Sergeant Brian Maurer and I would love to see Dawne represent the union.
Schultz has no right to even look at the audit. the union is separate from the slacker leader. If he does get a copy of the audit. Every member of the union better get one. He does not need to see what the results are.
Why didn't Schultz put Joey and Felipe (and any other board member taking our money) on administrative duty until the results of the audit? He does this for all other allegations against officers, why not for the APOA Board that Mower is accusing of stealing $259,000!!!!!
The APOA is not part of APD or the City. There are allegations but as of yet no facts of criminal activity. That is why the Chief cannot put them on admin duty.
You have allegations of embezzlement made by the Union attorney. The APOA is made up of police officers. Now you have the ex APOA pres and vp admitting that they padded their APOA pay. They now resign. If this isn't enough for admin duty I don't know what is. I have seen other officers put on admin duty for a hell of a lot less. This is going to be a big story of corruption inside APD / APOA. This is only going to get bigger and Schultz should protect the department and citizens from any wrongdoers.
The chief protects the chief. Period.
If there are union members openly criticizing the union then why not let the local media and citizens attend your meeting this Thursday. If there is nothing to hide.....
The citizens and media should be at the meeting. A credible and unbiased independent investigator should be there too. Every member and faminl member of every member should be pushing for as much publicity as possible. this scandal should be recognized nationwide for what it is; a total betrayal on every level OF those who put their lives on the line every day BY those who have worked harder at finding ways to avoid the work of the job they took and the oath they have sworn to uphold.
Be it union presidents, the mayor or the APD 5th floor thug posse. they all need to answer for their actions. The lies and the lies that they didn't lie need to be called out. The chief needs to be thrown out and he needs to take every one of his cancer cells with him.
Unioni meetings are fun! free burgers and free booze!
Yea the food of champions...er..uh. I mean fat out of shape slobs that steal money from employees and their families.
Pink Slime....MMMMMM...Yummmmm...
The 5th floor looks like they make a steady diet of the stuff. The disgusting slobs.
Roberto.....are you kidding. Just put Paul Heh in office. Henderson and Webber....same same....notice first move was a press conference with Berry. This will be a long road. And oh....what about Roberto's "christmas bonus"? Souldnt she be sharing the same cell as the others?
Fire every APD employee and bring in the National Guard!
What are the Xmas bonuse ppl keep referring to?
Ok all, first off, Tommy Henderson is part of the Joey/Felipe lies and embezzlement. He is one of the guys "Joey" chose to go to Boston where they spent over $15,000 of APOA money because he "Busted his ass". HAHAHAHA He busted his ass writing the quarterly news letter that only came out 3 times, oh and he copied everything from the web. He was also given $2000.00 of APOA's money to go buy a MAC Laptop to write this News letter, but ask him where that laptop is? He doesn't even know. Greg Weber was always on Joey's side and agreed and voted on everything Joey proposed. And just hours into their tenure, they stand next to the Chief and Mayor and totally through APD under the bus!!! hhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmm can you smell butter bars.
This by the way, without the boards approval. Joey then gave Dawne, Felipe, Matt Fisher and himself a "Christmas Bonus" of $500.00 because they "Worked Hard". Dawne said she never claims Union over time when she reps officers, but I would direct you to the Union's checkbook and you'll see PLENTY of checks made out to her. I think the entire board needs to be fired and no one, "ESPECIALLY TOMMY HENDERSON and GREGG WEBBER" (who are Joey's clonnies) should be allowed to run the Union. They are just as dirty as Joey and Felipe were because they knew what was going on and allowed it to happen. Now they claim Joey tricked them into believing everything they were doing was justified, BULL!!! As board members, they should know the by laws and to try and claim innocence under the "I was Naive and I didn't know" blanket, is not only a disgrace but shows what kind of leaders they are and will be.
APD/APOA Members, show up to meetings and take control of your Union!!! Take Control and show the board that you will not stand for anymore lying, cheating or STEALING!!! Not only from the board but all the way up the Chain.
Henderson and Weber are not the same as Heh, not even same species. Heh has guts not only to admit he made a mistake but to bring a fight on. Those two will avoid conflict with brass at all costs. Henderson will LIE for the chief plain and simple. If APOA money bought him a MacBook, then that laptop is the Apoa's period. Do an inventory and see how much of this stuff is now on Craigslist.
" Heh has guts not only to admit he made a mistake"
Please, he had no choice but to admit that he was wrong. A person that believes everything they hear from a politician is a fool.....hence Heh is a fool. Thank goodness he retired, it was long over due.
Ref 10:24, I'm sorry did you move to have a no confidence vote against Darren White? It takes a pretty solid guy to step up in a room of cops and admit one's failure and weakness. Didn't see Joey and Flip do that did you?
"It takes a pretty solid guy to step up in a room of cops and admit one's failure and weakness"
That is the problem. There is no one on the force who consistently addresses issues accept for those that are vested and can retire by submitting their request. His act does not make him a "solid guy", he waited to long to address the issues. If you are classifying everyone else as a coward then those that wait until they are untouchable to address the issues are even worse cowards!
What a double yet similar standard. Do your job, address the issues as they arise or go home. I'm tired of hearing whining cops complain. You chose your career so deal with it or find another career!
He waited too long? What would early enough look like???
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