Eye, I'm a longtime reader and am now stepping into the fray. Today's Albuquerque Journal featured an editorial praising Richard Berry's new "initiative" in dealing with the city's homeless problem. In the editorial they wrote:
"Mayor Richard Berry last week announced an initiative to help people in crisis. Berry didn’t directly tie the new effort to any particular events, but he did say there have been “many situations in recent months, where we’ve … had tragic incidents with individuals who are both homeless and suffering mental health issues.” Albuquerque Journal, Op/Ed, 6/2/2014
Who are these people kidding? First we had the "Bringing Albuquerque Home" program that attempted to find housing for the city's GIANT homeless population. Now the paper is trying to make Berry into some kind of here. Except we've been down this road before. I saved the above email from OCTOBER 2011 (don't ask me why) and here we are again except this time we saved from having APD's Ray Schultz in the mess. Isn't the irony truly tragic. This "summit" from back in 2011 was promoted as an effort to avoid the exact type of tragedy which occurred with the shooting death of James Boyd.
I hope you will post this because what's abundantly clear is that there are NO ideas within the Berry Administration and what they do have are intended to AVOID problems rather than resolve them.
Regards,
[Name Withheld]
Hmmmmm, seems like we've been down this road before. Perhaps Berry will be looking at hiring PERF to assess APD's issues? Or contract for another Matrix report???
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After the summit the COAST team was making some real headway. Then the Mayor cut back funding and put Karen Fischer in charge of the unit. The unit then reported her to IA so the Chief changed City policy so civilian managers could no longer be reported to IA, so most of the unit quit.
After seeing how badly putting civilian know nothings in charge of 34s went, TJ was hired and given control of the greatest cyber stalking tools known to law enforcement, and officers who should have been fired so they would never say no to an order from their untrained civilian boss.
Remember DoJ says APD completly failed at community policing and community initiatives. The annual reports say that was the main duty of Fischer and Wilham.
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