We cannot think of a greater local threat than the RTCC to our right to be free of unregulated government spying and intrusion. As our Eyes have told us, Perry/Berry routinely use the resources held by the RTCC for purposes other than it's stated mission: "Provide real-time information to field officers responding to high-risk calls."
You see the director of the RTCC is none other than former Albuquerque Journal police reporter Todd "TJ" Wilham:
Even though TJ has no experience running an intelligence unit (let's be real, that's what the RTCC is and among their activities is data mining), he does seem to qualify for one thing. He's a political hack. And don't take our word, or our sworn Eyes word for it. Here's confirmation from the city in their response to an recent IPRA request (or more accurately, an IPRA of IPRAs):
So Schultz places TJ in position where there is no oversight and from what our Eyes tell us, he routinely is doing research on citizens unrelated to field officers responding to calls. But rather, he is doing favors for Berry/Perry (and just how disconnected from Darren White is he?). And as the city confirms, TJ has no job description. And apparently is untouchable from being complained about by citizens. Really?
A political appointee using privileged and public department resources outside the scope of the unit's mission? We see that the RTCC has been nourishing for TJ:
But this stinks more like Josef Goebbels. Not in American do you do this TJ. Perhaps Mr. Heh and Mr. Dinelli should know, or demand to know, what public resources TJ used in support of the Berry campaign or continues to use.....
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NSA
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WTF
Yes Eye, let's show the media connection and conspirators involved with Schultz. Now this is what needs to be investigated. The media, especially the Waltz brothers printed lies under direction of the chief in order to help the chief obstruct the DOJ's investigation. Money, contracts, and lucrative information exchanged hands in the process this is Rico and Racketeering at it's finest.
How do we IPRA all the illegal searches and surveillance Wilham has done on political and personal enemies of the Berryistas?
Personal cell phone? SOP states the City will turn over all call and text logs when a personsl phone is used for City business.
Overtime? He is exempt but takes comp every week.
Complaints? We both know there's a loaded file. Vince, we both know you shit yourself when TJ's girl gave you her two weeks notice because she named names in writing. She got sick of Karen Fischer and TJ and told the Union all the illegal crap you did. Vince, you really should have tried to give a shit.
Reynaldo, you should be ashamed. Playing semantics to withhold information on an IPRA. Its ok. Kathy says you did it right. Kathy says you won't get sued.
Might be impossible to find out the tech TJ has at his fingertips....even Judges are being kept in the dark.
The following is out of Florida.....
"The ACLU, which has been trying to pry open the details of this relationship for years, is still hammering away, focusing on a recent case out of Florida.
As revealed in a recent opinion of a Florida appeals court, Tallahassee police used an unnamed device — almost certainly a stingray — to track a stolen cell phone to a suspect’s apartment. (The case’s association with stingrays was first pointed out by CNET’s Declan McCullagh in January). They then knocked on the door, asked permission to enter and, when the suspect’s girlfriend refused, forced their way inside, conducted a search, and arrested the suspect in his home. Police opted not to get warrants authorizing either their use of the stingray or the apartment search. Incredibly, this was apparently because they had signed a nondisclosure agreement with the company that gave them the device. The police seem to have interpreted the agreement to bar them even from revealing their use of stingrays to judges, who we usually rely on to provide oversight of police investigations.
When the suspect’s lawyer tried to ask police how they tracked the phone to his client’s house, the government refused to answer. A judge eventually forced the government to explain its conduct to the lawyer, but only after closing the courtroom to the public and sealing the transcript of the proceedings so the public and the press could never read it. Only later, when the case was heard on appeal, did the most jaw-dropping fact leak out. As two judges noted during the oral argument, as of 2010 the Tallahassee Police Department had used stingrays a staggering 200 times without ever disclosing their use to a judge to get a warrant.
Potentially unconstitutional government surveillance on this scale should not remain hidden from the public just because a private corporation desires secrecy. And it certainly should not be concealed from judges. That’s why we have asked the Florida court that originally sealed the transcript to now make it available to the public. And that’s also why we have asked police departments throughout Florida to tell us whether they use stingrays, what rules they have in place to protect innocent third parties from unjustified invasions of privacy, and whether they obtain warrants from judges before deploying the devices."
"Mr. Wilham is a political appointee." Interesting they would use this language. Under city personnel rules and regulations, city personnel fall under two categories: either "classified" with vested rights and can only be fired for cause or "unclassified/exempt" meaning you are at-will and can be terminated without cause, any time. All the Mayor's Department Directors for example, including Chiefs of Police and Fire, are unclassified/exempt and serve at the pleasure of the Mayor and can get fired at any time. There are also hundreds of other unclassified or exempt positions at City Hall where people are usually replaced when a new Mayor is elected, BUT NOT anymore. Also, after a person works for 5 years they become vested for retirement. For the last year Rob Perry and Berry have gradually and deliberately made a number of exempt/unclassified positions as classified thereby protecting their political appointees if Berry lost the election. Rob Perry and Berry have also been giving 10 to 15% raises to Department Heads and Assistants all the while offering rank and file 1% to 2% raises. Just compare Department Director salaries today to what they were being paid 4 years ago. Which now brings us to TJ Wilham. TJ Wilham was making about $45,000 if not less than that as a Journal reporter. He was one of Darren Whites media buddies and it was White that got TJ his job when he ordered Schultz to hire him at $75,000 a year. TJ's position when he originally stated was an unclassified/exempt position and he has been trying to get the job classified so his retirement will be vested on one year and where he cannot be easily fired.
When I was in RTCC we had to log everything we did in that Share point site. The list of technology is there.
To all of you money-grubbing, power-hungry, egomaniacs which have no conscience,
Now that you are standing naked before the citizens, completely exposed, excuse me I mean partially exposed as there is more to come, have you connected with your conscience now? Do you realize that we know who you are and how you have been abusing and figuratively raping us? We see your scheming and game plan that you thought you could get away with. We’ve got you figured out. You have been funneling the money from the good citizens of this community for far too long, lining your pockets and those that you have been conspiring with including the media among others. You thought you had this all sewed up into one neat little package so that you could screw us and not get caught by your total disregard for the law and abuse of your position. You were so greedy that you covered all of your bases so that if we tried to have justice from your abuse, you bought those people too, and with OUR money I might add. You’ve been stealing from all of us including all of the good and honest people who have felt helpless, the poor people struggling to survive and the hard-working people paying into this corrupted system and economy, so you can funnel OUR money to your mafia. Go fuck yourself! Parties over! We now have a voice and we will be heard! Like a phoenix rising out of the ashes, the citizens are awakening, in unity, out of their apathy and sense of hopelessness, now with the hope that something will be done. It’s just a matter of time.
http://www.statetechmagazine.com/video/albuquerque-police-department-bridges-data-gap
"It's not a good day to be a bad guy in the city of Albuquerque knowing what we've got behind these doors."
— T.J. Wilham
Director, Real Time Crime Center
Here's a list of toys hawked to APD by CDW-G (known suppliers to the RTCC) a few months ago....
http://www.alanet.org/region4/handouts/OM02_Apps.pdf
Contract Number: GS-35F-0195J
Contract Number: B27174
10:46,
Great comment. But with TJ in charge at RTCC it is a good day to be Berry, Perry and Schultz and costing the city millions every week in trials. TJ protects the corruption at City Hall.
WTF is with Tourek and the rest of these clowns? Did they really tried to pull the qualified immunity card on the Browder family?
What a bunch of sick fucks grasping at imaginary golden parachutes.
Not only didn't it fly, but I bet it just raised the anti...and now every citizen out there is going to be watching and filming the fuck out of us.
Thanks a lot DICKS!!!!!
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Qualified immunity is not immunity from having to pay money damages, but rather immunity from having to go through the costs of a trial at all. Accordingly, courts must resolve qualified immunity issues as early in a case as possible, preferably before discovery.
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Recently, in Pearson v. Callahan (07-751), the Supreme Court held that courts considering officials’ qualified immunity claims do not need to consider whether or not the officials actually violated a plaintiff’s right if it is clear that the right was not clearly established.
Sounds like Vincent Yermal and Vicente Alvarado
Why is anyone surprised at the recent in print news of TJ being a political appointee? It's obvious he has a lot of Intel on several members of City Government and they all have to make sure it doesn't get out. One day TJ will open his can and all the crap will spew out. Like ones intestines during a prep for a colonoscopy.... And all of the cancerous polyps will be cut on.
Perry doesn't give just anyone a job. He gives jobs to those he can control and TJ is no different. TJ went from serving the beast known as Darren White to serving the devil known as Rob Perry.
@503 Who is TJs girl? What did she write?
Did Reynaldo get the memo?
"Government watchdog groups and reporters say political appointees have been given increased sway over Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in the Obama administration, slowing down the release of public records and introducing political pressure to the process.
Numerous federal agencies have adopted policies to review “significant” or “sensitive” FOIA requests. The White House also frequently reviews FOIA requests it claims contain executive branch materials."
http://freebeacon.com/political-review-hampers-foia-process-watchdogs-say/
Here's a little tidbit...TJ routinely uses department resources to gather Intel and give to his media buddies. don't think we're all that stupid Chris. And for gods sake, that perfume needs to go.
Oh ICK TJ has a girlfriend? Wonder if she works at Taco Bell.
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3365019.shtml?cat=500
Another innocent man in jail for almost 4 years for a murder he did not committ.
It takes the jury 2 hours to find him innocent. APD and the District Attorney defend their actions. No one in Albuquerque gives a damn. He will sue and we will pay, dearly.
How many times does this have to happen before something changes at the District Attorney Office and at APD? How many innocent people spend years in jail because Ray Schultz, Richard Berry and Kari Brandenburg are incompentent? When will these three be held accountable for the innocent lives ruined by the agencies (and city) they run? When will we start holding them accountable?
TJ is untouchable just like Barboa, get over it!
Yea, her name is Rosie Palm.
No TJ has a wife and three kids. We're talking about the crime analyst who quit. That letter was loaded. She took the Union to meet with Vince. Vince and Bobby tried to say she was the problem, not Karen Fischer and TJ. Her letter said what the real problem was.
I hear while taking it in the ass for the Governor and the NMLEA board, in the city different, Eden became 'curious'.
After one quick trip to Trinidad, that's all it took, to have what little manhood he was born with sanded off, the next step in his transformation was to select, as can be seen by all, just the right butthole surfer hair color.
What ever you do, don't let your womenfolk shake his hand or hug him. If they get that testosterone cream on them you'll be fighting to be the first in the can to shave. That is unless Eden gets you in a package deal to have her facial hair lasered off.
The SID is a den of vipers,dirty cops,and skeletons. It's no coincidence the most corrupt of APD have all grouped there.
3/17 at 11....which analyst was that? The one with the, um, well huge chest?
Was it the crime analyst with the initials KC? If so she really knew her shit and was very good at what she did for the Department.
So what is the real problem with Fischer and TJ?
at 2:11....aside from them using public resources for private purposes, using their positions for personal advancement, using their positions for political purposes, lying about what they're doing, and being totally unqualified and incompetant.....nothing.
Go have a couple more burr-eat-ohs TJ, your pie hole looks like its been neglected lately...
As Senator John McCain has said "elections have consequences". Berry was reelected and city personnel and APD rank and file are all screwed for another 4 years. Going after TJ is an exercise in futility and he is secured as long as Berry and Perry are around. The Eye needs to focus on much bigger corruption and targets at City Hall like Rob Perry and other department heads like Eden who once discredited will have an impact on Berry's popularity. Berry's ultimate goal is to be Governor or US Senator and TJ is nothing but a pimple on Berry's ass. Rob Perry on the other hand is the second head of the Berry snake and Berry's hatchet man.
Good job Chief Gordon you got information out early and not a cover up like Schlitz. If it's a good shoot or bad Gordon had nothing to do with it. Sandy should not be in the field having any type of contact with field. What is the deal on less than lethal? A Sergeant responded?
Looks like TJ has come along ways from wearing XXXXXXXX LG tee shirts stained with food while writing Journal news articles for the Journal to at least wearing suits to cover his gut. Still a bottom feeder. Still lazy with no real purpose other than drawing a pay check. Perry looking more and more bloated with no neck acting like a bully. Lets have another round!!!!!
Les Brown stands by his vice detectives in the Pat Murdoch case. He says "they did a very thorough investigation", then in the very same interview when asked about the possible extortion claims against the woman in the case against Murdoch along with Murdoch's allegations of theft of over $10,000 worth of items from his home by this woman, what is Lieutenant Brown's response? He didn't know if those claims were "fully investigated." Do these people listen to themselves speak and how badly they publicly contradict themselves every time they open their mouths. This is more proof of the culture within APD of omitting anything from a case that may hurt their preconceived outcome. Then what does lieutenant brown do? He throws state appeals court judge Michael Bustamante right under the bus by making sure he points out that he reviewed and signed the search warrant on the Murdoch case. Well.... Many search warrants were signed that were based on bad information provided by officers. The judge relies on officers to provide good information. And besides, the search warrant is only a piece in this puzzle.
Notice the pattern here. Omitted facts, biased investigations, then the blaming of others when caught. It was a shit case and if the brass would for once stand up and admit for once that they fucked something up, things would start to change. But as you can see they continue to point fingers and deny.
Excellent job Katey Kim. Keep exposing the malicious prosecution, abuse of power and conspiracies going on at high levels within APD. It is going to get really deep the harder you look. Everything is connected and it is all related to providing cover for criminals within the administration from the DOJ.
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Let's be clear about this shooting. Sandy arrest of Murdoch gets thrown out. Within the same week, with CIT on scene, Sandy fires his weapon and the guy dies. Sandy is not CIT but he took the shot. He is also not SWAT. He is the guy who was fired from State Police.
If BLT had baggage that resulted in ten million, good shot or not, this guy had no business in the field THIS week. Any attorney will get the jury to open the checkbook bigger then we have seen. Add to it the pending jury verdict in Torres that everyone is waiting to see and this is another bad payday.
Once that is done how many other cases will appeal and win? All that's left is for attorneys to realize how many cases had both of these two working on them.
Now let's add Peck in Intel.
Here's what every damn attorney will be saying at cross for the next two years "Enough about what you say my client did. Let's talk about you. Your SID works everything as a team. Let's talk about Officer --- on that team... Now let's talk about Officer ----. Is it true that Sgt ---- also worked on this case, yes or no. That's the same now Sgt BLT who... That's the same Sgt Peck who has not been cleared of his shooting. That's the same Sandy who the DA threw out the case on Murdoch and shot a guy the same week. That's the same..."
Brown clean house before the attorneys get every case thrown out. Even a first year can now toss every case you produced and will until you make drastic changes.
Someone needs to look into the connection between Murdoch and 1st DA Spence - a very messy case involving the same suspects that they were prosecuting in both cities, that include snitches for both police depts. How convenient to make it her call to prosecute him. What message does the mishandling of Murdoch send to other sitting judges???
So the guy was ( possibly) camping illegally big fricken deal, he wasn't bothering anyone. The officers should have left him alone. Bet the person that made the suspicious person call feels really good right about now. And K Sandy has no business even being on APD, quantity not quality. We the citizens will be paying for this very soon.
I am hearing Peck will be facing some untruthfulness, purjury and witness intimidation issues in the very near future. Someone rolled on him during all of this DOJ business. It's ironic how he followed right in the footsteps of another winner, Ryan Buckner.
I can't wait to see Sandy sitting in Federal Court with his prior sanction that his chain of command knew about. Can't happen fast enough he should not be wearing an APD Uniform. I bet the defense attorneys are going to be fighting over this civil rights violation case.
Regarding Murdoch and Spence I believe that case was a disaster to begin with. Since when does APD but evidence? You detain the woman and get a search warrant for her and the video. They are outside watching her in a car and send their ho up to make the buy. Come on. There are so many things wrong about this entire case. Les Brown to begin with.
Someone rolled on Peck? Try multiple people. But someone got his antics on tape and turned it over.
IF YOU KNOW A CRIME IS COMMITTED AND YOU WORK FOR A POLICE DEPARTMENT, EVEN A CIVILIAN, YOUR FAILURE TO REPORT WILL RESULT IN ACCESSORY AFTER THE FACT CHARGES. COURTS HOLD ALL EMPLOYEES OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO A HIGHER STANDARD FOR FAILURE TO REPORT A CRIME.
Someone indeed showed the DOJ where to look. Some Obstruction of Justice charges looming also. It's all over the place, brass,union,civilians.
There are reasons he was set up...
9:53 is spot on correct, right APOA? You can't hide anymore. You had a chance and you blew it. The DOJ knows .
If a city attorney is complicit in advising police department investigators to lie under oath does that attorney not lose all attorney client privileges and indemnity for herself and those she advised?
@322 yes and will face additional charges because she or he is an agent of the court
@3-19, 11:04pm: Agree with you 110%! Especially about the person who made the "suspicious" call. That must be some tiny brained, bored to death, petty, mentally malfunctioning individual. Another pollutant swimming in the gene pool.
I dont believe the info on Peck is true. I dont know him but if it was true i think he would be pulled to desk duty. Who knows it could be correct information but if DOJ has reason of wrong doing, they would iuld demand a desk fir him
@10 APD does not sideline the golden boys of Ray. It promotes them. When DoJ is done they will make sure everyone, not just Peck, that they know about doesn't have a desk or a badge.
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