Change is an inevitable component of life. And while sometimes it's for the good, frequently it's for the bad. For as long as our current and retired APD Eyes can remember, if there was one thing that was certain, to be admitted into APD's police academy you had to at least meet the 40% threshold on the physical fitness assessment test.
Now it seems as the department is starved for new applicants to fill the hundreds of vacancies in a once proud but now decimated department, there is an unofficial relaxing of even these modes standards. Under the "administration" of former FLETC assistant director Joe Wolf, the requirements to become a police officer are getting, well, weird. No longer is heart and brawn valued, but softness and academics.
While the standard of 60-credit hours and/or honorable military time still stands, the physical fitness requirements have been relaxed even further than the 40% mark.
Despite the $5,000 hiring bonus (at the expense of keeping officers with over 18 years of training and experience...you do the math and see if this makes sense) and a total turnaround to flood the streets with light blue PSAs who under Schultz's new policy will be able to "apprentice" there way in as cops (note the typical Schultz lie: no credit hours and no military experience necessary for those that are 18yrs old and track to become as officers via the PSA route...and no life experience), APD still remains in a personnel tail spin.
Congratulations Officer Stephanie Lopez!
But on other fronts, change is coming to the APOA. By a two-to-one margin, Officer Stephanie Lopez defeated current APOA president Sergeant Greg Weber and will be the new police union president.
We're sure Weber has yet another "soft" landing spot as all he did for his term was carry water for Schultz and Berry. Our Eyes are concerned about what will be done with that confirmed leak and snitch: Ron Olivas? Will he continue to milk money out of the APOA? Will he be allowed to stay even though he remained silent while Sigala reportedly stole tens of thousands of police officer funds?
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How many actual APD recruits are in the current academy?
12 total, 9 for APD I think
I think I can corral 40 more cadets, they are of the 4 legged breed and, by HQ math, that makes 80.
Good God 9 recruits, what a waste of money. This should be an election issue, wasting our dollars putting on academy where no cadets are there.
Weber quit bemoaning whether it was fair yo. You got hammered by a chick. Stfu.
Problem is the polygraphers fail everyone who tests as inconclusive. That's pathetic that there are 800 candidates and only 25 start the academy. There was a day when retired cops in good standing actually meant there was integrity within the family. Now the academy staff has made a point to say NO retired cops kids, except Shultz of course. Their loss.
Most end up at RRDPS, BCSO, or NMSP.
They are better off
If that many polygraphs are coming back inconclusive it is time to evaluate who is giving it, what is being asked, and how it factors into the decision process. There is a reason they don't carry weight in court or federal hiring unless someone is proven lying.
Mark Johnson should be fired. He has been caught several times in his unmarked police car shopping on duty. It has been reported to the chief and the mayor they do nothing. He almost always yells at applicants during his testing. Very unprofessional. He should be followed by the Inspector General and then fired for screwing around on duty. Oh we don't have an Inspector General. Well Larry Barker and Gadi Schwartz it is time for you to do some undercover work and catch this guy.
Hot off the press.....Levy has had all her cases pulled from her. Strictly internal bitch of Schultz now. All appearances replaced with other lawyers.
The media needs to expose Karen Fischer and her scam company that is costing taxpayers thousands of dollars.
She conspired with Ray to give herself a double dipping income prior to her retirement. Here is the timeline.
She opens up a company in August of 2012, while still a city employee. She then retires in December of 2012. In January of 2013 her company gets a contract from Mayor Berry and Chief Schultz to do exactly what she was doing prior to retirement. This violates the double dipping law and is a perfect example of Berry and Schultz conspiring to violate laws that they do not like, to benefit their supporters.
I repeat, the city never paid an outside firm to do this work prior to Karen retiring. Now they are paying her tens of thousands of dollars to do what a city employee used to do. Good old boy (and girl) system at work.
The media needs to jump on this (no pun intended). Heh needs to expose this.
Don't the two polygraph officers have colorful histories? I heard that Mark had so many car wrecks that he had to get out of the Field Services or risk getting fired. I heard Christine quit the department over some extra activities with a SWAT officer. Then she was hired back when the dust settled.
If this stuff is true just who the heck are these two people to determine if others are telling the truth?
Here's a riddle:
What short, fat, ugly, looks like something Jabba the Hutt left as afterbirth and had all her cases taken away from her?????
I haven't seen Larry Barker doing much these days - thought he was retired. Gadi is in Oklahoma covering the tornado because, you know, that is real news in New Mexico
That is just great! More $$$$ to taxpayers because Albuquerque is self funded and we don't have insurance. $10.3 million and counting. She should be fired and tarred and feathered. She has cost the city more than any other former or current city employee EVER.
Don't forget Levy's twin over at the the DA's office, Drebing is going to cost the city just as much if not more.
Hahahahaha..... What a coward and creep. Hanging out in an apartment then playing Clintons to fool everyone. What a disgrace. No integrity whatsoever.
Hey Mr. 3:00,
Leave my co-conspirator alone!
Drebing and Troy Davis has been in charge of the secret grand jury BS. Troy should go down, too.
To Virginia and Ray,
The chickens are coming home to roost for you two and the shit you pulled violating officers rights. The federal crimes that were committed are coming to light and there will be some explaining if not orange jumpsuits in the near future. Enjoy the holiday weekend assholes.
Just heard that they will be offering Laterals a $25,000 signing bonus for a 2 year commitment. So much for the current employees.
To the Albuquerque Media,
Please stop giving free advertising and publicity to the Real Time Crime Center.
This is only furthering the agenda of a parasite so that he can profit from it into retirement. There are several cities that have been doing this for a few years now. Albuquerque is not the first. These creeps couldn't care about crime or this new system. All they care about is how they can profit from it down the road and line their pockets.
KRQE is covering the expansion of security cameras by APD. Why are all the desks empty behind TJ? Isn't the center "staffed" all the time or is it just like the field, tell the public there is no staffing problem when the problem is massive.
LMAO!!! TJ and his RTCC couldn't even protect his own camera trailer! Thousands in damage! Way to "monitor" the equipment
Who will be brought before IA for not monitoring the feed?! It resulted in destruction of City property. Or is it that the cameras aren't being monitored at all?
$25,000 for laterals...
If there are no recruits that are insane enough to take this job there certainly are no laterals this stupid. I find this funny considering that you have that asshole
Mark Johnson bashing laterals by calling them pieces of shit that are either running from something or having something to hide. Then you have the other idiot treating applicants like shit and failing them because she doesnt like them. If thats not enough to avoid a contract with this cess pit until the current regime is either gone resigned or in prison then applicants should also know how these officials and APD brass will lie on an officer, use them, and fuck them over to get their asses out from under the dirty shit they have been doing for years. If anyone has a clue of what the filthy few around here are capable of, no amount of money is worth the compromise to your life undertaken by dropping your standards and taking a job on a sinking ship.
So, the City Fathers repay the citizens that have supported them buy firing two officers, throwing away tax dollars invested, without any real explanation. Then top it off by setting up a citywide surveillance system, again without any explanation as to how the citizens will be protected from a whole new level of possible abuse, controlled by a man with a questionable work history and no legal (system) background. Now that is a change…apparently we are now all criminals and not worthy of being informed.
Cha cha cha cha cha changessss.....
It is really going to be neat to watch the extreme upswing in the city and APD when the vermin are all pushed out entirely along with those cancer cells they think they are going to leave behind.
I wonder how they are going to spin the improvement.
Oops... Thats right, they won't be able to, because nobody will give a shit about what the never beens gave to say and they won't have access to the media anymore. Boo fuckin hoo!!!!
I'll bet Wolf, the recruit whisperer,up at the APD police academy regrets taking that temporary position also, because he will probably be booted along with the rest if these fools. Oh well, nothing lasts forever, especially things that are wrong.
Me, i just can't wait to see the Han case along with the next few civil rights cases rocketing at this place.
Get forensics down to the RTCC to collect DNA samples off the JOYSTICK controller for those remote cameras.
Real Time crime center has exposed the biggest problem at APD. Berry and Schultz have so mismanaged the police department that there are not enough first responders. For 7 minutes the crime camera was being destroyed and no officer was able to respond. The vandals got away. This is huge news. We do not have enough first responders to protect the citizens.
Pamela Mackey handed Mark Drebing his behind in the Brandon Craig, east Mountains murder trial. Drebing should have been fired then.
http://cnninsession.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/craig-acquitted-in-triple-homicide/
That can't be, response time is only 3:38, everyone knows that.....
Albuquerque Police Real Time Crime Center, Feb 28, 2013...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isytf_1H9Pw&feature=player_embedded#!
@1155 it isn't news because it is nothing new. Response times have been climbing. That's why the Chief wanted to convince people they no longer mattered.
Monahans blog talked about how citizens are afraid of the criminal element. The criminal element has not changed, only the APD kinder, gentler, and slower response has.
Even the response time to the last few shots fired at 34s, with one hit has been getting longer and longer.
Don't you guys get it? when Ray was a field cop it was always about how to do more w/o really working. when he was a sergeant and lieutenant it was the same thing except now it included overtime. DOJ people go look at all of his timesheets and never did you see a guy accomplish so little by working so much overtime (except maybe current lieutenant Troy Luna). now since Ray has been chief the department's budget has exploded by over 50% but there are fewer cops than in decades. BUT now there are endless pricey specialized units doing all sorts of nifty hi-tech shit that if used correctly would be great. But of course, Ray and his minions don't know how to use the equipment because they were never good cops to begin with. And they've operated under a wussy DA that hasn't held them accountable for endless fucked up cases in her jurisdiction....
As the saying goes, the new thing is that there's nothing new. APD needs a TOTAL house cleaning and culture change. a true through and through or forever it will remain the same place that preys on the weak and protects the powerful.
People matter, individuals matter; no system, however well oiled, and no leader, however omnicompetent, can afford to ignore the importance of personnel and having the right people in the right posts. Robert E Lee
Yea, the criminals are at a real disadvantage TJ.
Hahaha.
Criminals - 1
RTCC - 0
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