Hey Albuquerque Police Department... Meet your new Deputy Chief.

Last month, the City Of Albuquerque hired a brand spanking new Deputy Police Chief. And we do mean spanking. 

Again, the media has been quiet on this one, as has been the administration. Maybe they are seeing if he will be a good fit, or maybe they just don’t want anyone looking into who it is. We did. 

For years, we have been calling for objectiveness and fairness in investigations, but all we have seen are police “administrators” who liken themselves to “police executives,” and betray the rank and file officers with their self serving actions and deeds, that are more politically driven to either make them look good, look like the solution to the city’s problems or what we have had mostly here... TO COVER UP THEIR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR, SO THAT THEY DO NOT GET CAUGHT, AND THE LIGHT ISN’T SHINED ON THEM. THEY DO ALL OF THIS BY PACIFYING THE CITIZENS WITH LIES, DELAYS AND PRETENTIOUS HORSE SHIT. 

Over the last two decades, police command staff leadership skills have become a disgrace. Police brass have gone from leading from the front, like Former Police Chief Stover did, to being  cuckolds of a mayor strong influence, where the chief of police is controlled by the mayor and the city attorney. As this change has occurred, the men in leadership rolls have suffered atrophy of their testicles when it comes to making hard, or unpopular decisions. They have not just become cowards. They have chosen at times to actually use harrowing experiences officers have been involved in, where they had to make split second decisions for their own political advantages and advancement by Monday morning quarterbacking them, lying, and scapegoating them. This is the ultimate in cowardice and scumbaggery. What’s worse is the ramifications and ripple effect that follows in the wake of a self promoter who makes public service about themselves, their ego, and about their pockets, like what has been going on here in New Mexico for decades. This is why Albuquerque is the mess that it is. 

We here at the Eye keep a watchful lookout for patterns, and noticeable deviations from patterns. The city of Albuquerque has always announced, or had press releases concerning new high level hirings within the city, but not this time. 

Michael Smathers was recently hired by the Albuquerque Police Department to be a new Deputy Chief. Below, is a little about him, which shows him to be mostly administrative. Smathers is a former Major from the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department in North Carolina.

THE RESUME

Smathers applied to the Durham police department, before Albuquerque, but was not hired for the position. He also was not chosen for a position in Iowa. Why all over the country? 

We think this hiring needs to be transparent, in that Smathers was in charge of investigating police shootings, and back in 2014 he had one of his officers charged for manslaughter, within ONE DAY after the shooting. We are not passing judgement on whether or not the use of force was justified in that shooting, but rather whether or not the poor investigation, and judgement in rushing to prosecute, lead to the shit mess that followed in this new hire’s former city, and police department. Our Eyes are telling us the investigation into this case was handled much like a few cases here, where Schultz and Eden, both failed and disgraced ex police chiefs responsible for the ongoing mess, and lack of morale, railroaded employees by lying under oath, fabricating claims, and calling in favors from other criminals, who had influence in the investigations and proceedings involving these officers. Much like what went on here, videos were speculated on by Smathers when he wasn’t there, and when he could not see things in the video. The investigation was a mess, and a secondary investigative unit who had criticizing and contradictory 
recommendations for prosecution was cut out of the proceedings. 

These actions all resemble how this administration has conducted business for the last decade. You can read his deposition below. Look closely and you can smell the Schultz like Narcissism and avoidance of blame...

THE DEPOSITION

Below, you can read about the shooting and the discontent over how the investigation was handled, along with the fallout. The similarity with what is going on here is very close... mass exodus of officers... morale in the toilet... and a huge divide in staff over how investigations were handled. 

THE NORTH CAROLINA NEWS ARTICLE

What bothers us the most is how in both here, and in North Carolina, the old adage of laying out all of the facts, regardless of wether they are good or bad for prosecution or defense, and objectively making a just and fair decision were ignored. As a matter of fact, facts were actually intentionally suppressed. This was done just like the Albuquerque city attorney’s office has done in every case, where they have wrongfully and politically railroaded good officers, while they protect criminal officers, who are connected politically, related to someone of rank, or in city government, or who are valuable to them. Not only were officers railroaded because of hand directed and dictated investigations, with preconceived and plotted outcomes, but several investigations were compromised, along with several other citizens, who were outright framed as in the case where Detective Gonterman framed a kid for a murder he did not do while allowing the real murderer to be a witness, and while out free... to commit more crimes.

Political hires for political reasons of political people who will make all decisions based on self service and political reasons are unacceptable, especially when the life of a person, and their family depend on a shoddy, one day investigation, where facts of a case are omitted, in order to appease the public with false justice. If someone is going to be charged, there is no issue with taking time to investigate properly. One day is not the proper time, nor is it a proper decision to move that fast. It is an injustice to the suspect, an injustice to the public, and an injustice to the system.  The only one who perceives justice when this crap goes on is the one thinking they are the superstar solution to the problem they created.

You see, here is the thing with how certain types of people show up as frauds to the trained eye that knows what to look for. Mister Smathers wants to laud himself as being actively involved in the Innocence Project. We would like to hear from the Innocence Project on their stance about how they feel about a man or woman being fairly charged in a homicide, after a one day investigation. We would bet it would not be favorable. Just because it is popular to pile on cops today, and persecute them because it is popular, it doesn’t make changing one in one day right, nor does it make a one day investigation a proper, competent, and fair one. Our officers deserve leadership that does what is right, not what makes that supervisor look good politically, but in the long run fails everyone, and destroys a city. We will be watching. 

The below caption is from an agenda based anti cop paper. Much like the Albuquerque Urinal. Their prerequisite is not a prerequisite. There should be no loyalty but to fairness and the truth. Anything else is a prerequisite for a floor mopper. 

We suggest everyone read the links we have provided, because we are seeing more of the same here. There should be no loyalty to any side other than justice, but these clowns just don’t get it. They don’t want to get it, because when you can’t control investigations, odds are your filthy and corrupt friends get caught up in them. 

If you think we are wrong, just try to ask Attorney General Balderas what the fuck is going on with the Schultz / Taser investigation. We thought so. 

On another note. Our Eyes at the APD main building told us there is movement in the Jeremy Dear case. We were told the usual suspects and liars up in the COA City Attorney’s office had an emergency shit the pants meeting with the upper command of APD over court proceedings filed by Dear proving that Eden and investigators lied about Dear running video every time he was supposed to. New records were found showing the city lied about Dear not recording his public contacts. They stated he only recorded 633 times, when he actually recorded 2,200 times. This information was concealed and of course Major “ear torcher” Gonterman was involved in this. If you remember, Dear was awarded his job back, until the district court judge did legal gymnastics to avoid addressing the truth, and doing the right thing by being a coward, and overturning it for his political handlers like a true punk. This is another issue that needs to be addressed here... malfeasance of office and dereliction of duty in serving those of the public who rely on them as judges to be the thin line between tyranny and justice. 

If you think judges hearing officers, city attorneys, and investigators are not complicit in unethical dealings, whether directly, indirectly, in conspiring to do things like the above cases, all you have to do is look at the last decade of Internal Affairs cases, wrongful terminations, and failed criminal prosecutions of innocent citizens to see how filthy our entire state is. 

See the below documents...

The puke using people in this city and state to get ahead on their innocent backs needs to end, and those responsible within elected office of city and state, along with administrative personnel, need to be held accountable, and punished for defrauding the citizens and the courts.

We see it. We are not going to stop.