The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines happenstance as “an occurrence and development of events by chance.” This past Friday, such an occasion granted itself upon the citizens of Albuquerque. Periodically, the Albuquerque Police Department conducts a “quarterly managers meeting.” During this session the majority of the APD’s sergeants, lieutenants, commanders, and sometimes a deputy chief, meet to discuss various issues. Frequently it’s a review of current efforts by APD—a sort of “state of the department” lecture. Occasionally outside presenters are brought in to facilitate training and instruction. Having the personnel who run an institution get together to talk about issues affecting their institution is commonplace in most successful enterprises. It should be an opportunity for problem solving, program feedback, and development. Our Eyes tell us that this past Friday, the quarterly manager’s meeting was especially difficult to swallow. The theme of the meeting was “trust.” Not just regular trust, but trust as a commodity as offered by Stephen M.R. Covey in his book Speed of Trust.
Speed of Trust is a bestselling business book built upon a basic formula: “When trust goes up, speed will also go up and costs will go down.” As supporters of law enforcement in general and the men and woman who honestly swear their oath to wear a badge in particular, we could not be more pleased because the ideas and principles laid down in Speed of Trust are a roadmap for restoring APD to the great department it used to be. Covey profiles “trust” in five wave: Self trust, Relationship trust, Organizational trust, Market trust, and Societal trust. The leadership of APD invited this analysis, they will now be held to it until we can give the department a passing grade.
There are four core elements of Self trust: Integrity, Intent, Capabilities, and Results. Integrity involves a balance of congruity, humility, and courage. And since trust flows downhill, the question we are left to answer is: Does Chief Raymond Shultz of the Albuquerque Police Department model behavior he desires to see of his employees? Does he act according to his values? Are his actions consistent with his spoken principals? Is he concerned about what is right rather than being right? Does he embrace new truths or does he defend outdated positions? Does he have the ability to do the right thing even when it is difficult or unpopular?
Our Eyes tell us these questions put their stomach in knots because since 2005, the majority of APD’s leadership conveniently acts against these principles. Not only are these good principles, but they are natural principles. And if a department, by the actions of most of its management and the culture they reinforce, is not acting in allegiance to these principles then what you get is what’s going on with APD now: A department whose most experienced personnel are leaving as soon as they can (the mass exodus of the burglary unit), a declined personnel pool (a stagnant and declining pool of patrol officers), declined hiring standards (academy admissions and retentions), legal shortcuts (Murdoch scandal), infighting (where do we begin?), decimated morale (performance and APOA attendance), disorganization (recent violence downtown), non-merit based promotions (where do we begin? Gomez’s promotion? Mason’s promotion?), financial inefficiency (increased budget despite fixed pay schedules and decreased staffing levels), and worst of all from what our Eyes tell us and we see in the paper, cover ups. In other words, Nature, is exerting pressure back upon APD for its institutional misconduct and its failure to be faithful to natural principles.
PS: Don’t think these principles don’t apply to the APOA leadership as well. Our Covey analysis includes you too. And given the recent matters that have come to light regarding the spending of dues money all find their stomachs in knots as well.
23 comments:
Sad fact of the matter is, APD will never be restored to the way it once was (10-15 years ago)until the entire administration of the department, along with a few politicians are gone. That means the entire corroded 5th floor, the CAO and the mayor. It can be done in one swoop with the next election.
These stories need to be told, but nothing is ever going to happen to Schultz and Co. The only thing that is going to save this dept from total ruin is whenever Shitz gets replaced by a new chief whenever berry gets his ass voted out. Until then we all suffer. Thank you Eye for holding their feet to the fire though. As for the union leadership....that is an oxymoron.
Did anyone else see the total lack of empathy DCOP Fiest showed the girlfriend of the guy shot dead on Marquette? The gal falls to the ground crying and he stands over her. A rookie cop will tell you that a male police officer should never stand over a female, where is his empathy? Doesn't he even remember his academy training? At least he didn't start laughing like Banks would have.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!! Felipe will be re-elected as the unions vice president I guarantee it cause i have been asked to work a few ballot boxes (; also next year Joey will be re-elected to lead the sheep. Do you know where your union dues are going? No one else does either. Stay tuned as the corruption continues around here.
Cops don't shoot the innocent. The histrionics displayed by the girlfriend was totally for the camera. When a person is devastated, there is a certain state of shock and precludes this type of behavior. How much you want to bet the guy that got shot on I-40 yesterday would still be alive if he had not been a badass attempting to shoot his ex-girlfriend.
Hey SW stop crying that you are being singled out. You were transferred to Intel and were not qualified. You got yours going to main but why are you still driving SID car do you still have access to SID? You don't have a lawsuit against APD you still have same paying job and everything is done for the betterment of the department. To bad TW didnt get the same treatment.
ref the ballot boxes, i talked to the person who is in charge of the elections. its very interesting, she is making it almost tamper proof.
The media is screaming for another DOJ probe over the shootings folks.
Beware, and use caution, Schultz and his merry band of human sacrificial high priestesses are surely looking for the next cop to use, frame, lie on, slander, and attempt to ruin in order to draw the attention away from themselves.
Something makes you wonder why someone would hang onto a job where they are despised by their officers, not trusted by any civilians, a necessary evil to the media who knows they are a liar, and facing mounting legal troubles over their blantant misconduct against employees, only to have a sour belly every single day, cringing over what an officer might have to do to defend their lives on the street because you don't have the fortitude to stand up for those who stand up against evil every day. Maybe evil recognizes it's enemy. Probably because evil is within.
Fact is, it is too late to make a graceful exit, Everything has been done. The damage and scars will stay. What was done will not be erased or forgotten. A man would step down, recognizing failure.
Police Chief Bill Lee of Sanford Fl. just stepped down over the mishandling of the Trayvon Martin case, along with a vote of no confidence handed down against him Thursday. That was for one incident, not a court finding of rights violations, not for countless losses in civil court over due process violations or complaints of retaliation and corruption. For one incident. The chief of APD can be as inept as he wants to be, yet keep his position. Maybe it's time for an interim Cheif here. Maybe Mayor Berry should Fire Chief Schultz for the hundreds of right reasons, rather than the one reason Schultz fires his officers; to save his own back side. But we are smarter than that, because we all know that it is Berry Schultz and Perry, along with the others on the 5th floor who conspire every day on how to hold the line on their corrupt world. The officers and citizens are the ones paying the price.
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Yes, the DOJ needs to make a hard entrance here. They need to start with the judgements against Schultz. They need to recognize the patterns of retaliation that officers receive for speaking out against the corruption and misconduct. They need to open the books on how the Chief uses IA as a means to an end, not for it's intended purposes of objectively seeking the truth. They need to review investigative tapes and speak with witness who have first hand knowledge of instances where investigations and witnesses were tampered with under the guidance of these ploters and mappers of predetirmined investigations. They need to review media transmissions involving these actors, correlating them with investigative timeframes to see just how they operate, while foolishly documenting their misdeeds for the world to see on live tv. Observe how they announce firings, and personal opinions before investigations are even started or completed. They need to look at all city e-mails involving these officials where even in this day and age they continue to incriminate themselves in conversations, knowing that electronic communication NEVER goes away. They need to take their black berrys from them like a lollipop from a baby. They need to have forensics teams rip those phones apart to see how they use them to communicate their every move and plot. Just in electronic communications alone, you will find something that can be used in EVERY case against these malfeasant quasi administrative posers. Hint: Just watch them every time they walk into a meeting concerning a controversial subject, every time they run into an individual they have a problem with, every time thgey are at some form of litigation. They are always surreptitiously manipulating their Balckberries. I wonder how many times messages have been sent through those devices while the operator was under sequestration. Their phone records need to be pulled and combed through correlating every transmission with others involved in cases while they were under sequestration. It is all there. It is all public record under the Freedom of Information Act.
Just like their audio taped lies, the truth is out there. After all of this probable cause is developed, they then need to obtain search warrants for their personal devices and dissect those also. Every thread needs to be exposed, every mattress overturned. The corruption needs to be eliminated. Integrity doesn't have limits. One isn't righteous at work and immoral at home or vice versa. It is through and through, to the bone.
Someone commented on Feist and his lack of empathy towards that suspects girlfriend. They were right. That clip shows it all right there. Lack of care unless it is for oneself. Concern only for one's image, worried about what might be portrayed. What would it have taken to at least consoled the woman as a professional? But no, the conspirator mindset that these less than men have is that act of kindness would have looked bad. It may have looked like an admission of possible guilt. No, sometimes you have to do what is human. Sometimes you have to do what is right. Sometimes you have to forget what something looks like, and do the right thing. Something that Schultz and his whole team have no idea about, because the only time you worry that something can't be explained is when in your mind you know that you are wrong!
Cops don't shoot the innocent? So if somebody gets shot they're guilty and by that basis alone its justifiable?
SID and the CC section is a joke,,it has become a place for laterals to scam positions and people they need to hide..the continued ruination of a once great department
Hey Feist did you have your lapel camera running? Or did you answer to the best of your ability? Loooooooser
Funny how the Burglary Unit was the 2010 team of the year. Then all but what, two of the detectives quit in protest and went back to the field. What is it Feist said? Who needs them anyway?!?!?!? Nice, way to model leadership shortstuff.
Feist did to the best of his ability.
Feist couldn't change a car tire or anything else a man is expected to do for that matter.
Ref 3/22 at 6:01. You bring up many interesting points. Why couldn't Schultz or Feist have been a bigger human being and helped that woman. Who cares what endless record the guy who got shot had. If he were shot and struggling to live would you stand by and let him die as an officer? If your answer to that is YES then it's time for you to turn your badge in cause you aint no cop. Same with you Feist-hole, you stand over and breath in her grief as if it's some sort of prize? If this is how these fools are with the public think about how they are with officers who challenge them when they do wrong! How you treat the weak reveals one's true nature....
I don't recall any person recently shot by the police that could be called wholesome, upstanding citizens. This the the dregs of society, folks!
What's the deal with Gomez and Mason?
burgt unit was team of the year cuz rosebud and slopez werent there yet to fu*& everything up.
Who is Gomez and what was he promoted to????
Gomez was the Valley area commander for like 60 days a few years ago. RayRay gave it to him as a retirement bonus for being faithful to RayRay. Mason's promotion was another gift from RayRay. She fucked up records so bad they sent her to the field. But because she's a friend of RayRay she gets some love to. Not bad for being a piss poor cop and barely a high school degree. But look how much fun the Valley is these days....hahahahahahah!
TRUST!! I see the problem you guys wonder why the department looks bad. When you have Chief that doesn't support you that's bad, but when you have guys bad mouthing each other instead of supporting each other!! You should be standing together. You wonder why you all look so bad right now! Trust is key!
Slopez and Rosebud....ahh yes. Class acts those two are. One so hungry for attention he'll commit crimes and try the franchise thing, the other so hungry for promotion he'll wear hush puppies and dockers to work.....
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