In case there are any
misunderstandings whether or not the Albuquerque journal (urinal)
editorial board, and those
running that (for lack of a better description), perverse, yellow rag are
in cahoots with Mayor (for lack
of another better word) Richard J. Berry, I am going to show that they are. We
will show the disparity in reporting both sides of what is going on in Albuquerque, disregard for
balance in reporting, intentional omissions of information, and facts that adversely affects
their connections, and dealings with their close friends, aka Mayor Berry, in city government. I
will outline the facts that show that a popular Albuquerque newspaper aligns itself time and
time again with poor choices for political reasons, monetary reasons, vindictive reasons, and
unethical reasons. Sometimes you are as good as thecompany you keep. Lets look at
the Journal, and their company, those inside their company, and the ones who thought
Albuquerque was a crowd when things started getting hot, and fled.
For the same reasons we do not
like to give credence to perverts in the media, we will not post links to the Urinal articles, but
we will reference their content, and illustrate how these articles manipulate public opinion for the
benefit of Berry, by painting his critics as being disgruntled, or suffering from the effects of
sour grapes, when they point out the undeniable facts of Berry's failure, while they praise Berry
as he lies directly to your faces. Three articles were written on 1/17/16 about Mayor Berry, and
the Albuquerque police department. One laid out a timeline, and the other two provided cover for
the liar and accountability dodger, while painting him as the "better man" in a media
perceived war over what he has done, and overseen being done to employees, and citizens during
his malfeasant term in office. Make no mistake about it. The mayor and police chief have both
stated publicly that Albuquerque is a mayor strong city. This means the mayor calls the shots,
up until, of course, the time he needs to be distanced from the blunders, (Boyd shooting,
Tasergate, Eden caught lying at personnel hearings, IPRA violation issues, APD manpower
misrepresentations, FBI UCR crime stat manipulations, contract violations) then he sends in
waves of information officers who bend information, and lie to the media and public. (Tanner Tixier:
no such files exist, and Celina Espinosa when she said the elder gentleman can be seen
reaching for something in a recent video where a K9 was released on him) Conveniently, Berry gets
deniability through layers of cannon fodder between himself and the mistakes he has purveyed
over until you, the public, get the truth, as in when back in March of 2014 during the Boyd
protest down town, Eden attempted to make command decisions, and was told to sit
down, and shut the F$&@ up by the mayor, and that the mayor was running things. The mayor
knows of everything that has been done, and is complicit. The
difference is that YOU, the tax
payer will fund the legion city attorneys to shield him from
accountability, and or pay to
settle any case to keep him from exposure in any way. The Urinal
lauds this Mayor as "the
better man" when he vetoed the DOJ resolution request to have the
DOJ enter the picture. Drug
dealers on the corner would probably like to have the option to veto
police presence too. Lets not
forget the e-mail sent out to supervisors, threatening employees not to talk to the DOJ by Gordon
Eden.
The disgust meter goes up with
the printing of article number two in our January 17th hat trick of
crap. This article discusses the
rebuilding of the Albuquerque police department after former chief Raymond D. Schultz, Deputy
Chief Paul Feist, Deputy then Chief Allen Banks, Deputy Chief Beth Paiz, former city
attorney Kathryn Levy, resigned public safety director Darren White, CAO Robert Perry, and Mayor Berry
destroyed the place by illegally breaching contracts, playing shell games with money,
lying to the media, public and courts, bullied citizens employees and media executives,
tampered with investigations, cases and witnesses, retaliated against citizens
and employees, stole money earmarked as retention incentives to use as hush monies to keep the current
command staff pacified, attacked families who were plaintiffs in wrongful death cases, ran smear
campaigns against high value adversarial targets in the media in order to deflect attention
away from themselves, politically preemptively, and maliciously attacked the District Attorney of
Bernalillo county in order to take control of her office, and thwart prosecution of officers involved
in the Boyd shooting, at a crucial time when they did not want the negative publicity while the
DoJ was here. Lets not forget how they went after a popular district court judge, ruining his
career, to deflect attention from their misconduct again, at a very key time in 2011, while Tasergate
was developing on the drawing board, and the DoJ was looming. A fool could not see
that these officials knew what they were doing, were actively conspiring to complete their
initiative, and were doing anything they had to do in order to make sure they went undiscovered. The
Albuquerque Urinal, and their perverted editorial board would have you believe Mayor Berry is
absolutely clueless. We think not. I am sure no other officers
want to get shot by their
Lieutenant, then get blamed by their command staff, and the city for getting shot. Maybe that has
something to do with not wanting to work for APD?
Reading the aforementioned
article, you can see Mayor Berry using the false reason, and excuse that employees retiring,
and not returning is the reason for the high attrition. Employees retire to not work anymore. This
is one reason why employees retire. We here at the Eye know for a fact that officers are
retiring for other reasons. They are retiring, or RESIGNING, because the work atmosphere at the
Albuquerque Police Department is atrocious, treacherous, and rife with retaliation, vindictive and
criminal behavior, and childish attitudes, exhibited by high ranking police officials. The media knows
this too, but they will not air it. They know that they will be thrown under the bus for mere
workplace disagreements, or speaking out, just as former use of force instructor John Corvino was
when he discovered that the department forged his name on a letter to the State Police
Academy, and he spoke out about it. They are buying time to retire, and moving away. Berry wants to
blame money, when he knows the reason is himself, the lunacy he enables, and the out of
control, parasitic, lunatics running rampant on APD's 5th floor. No other reason. He also knows
that he will not be held to task on his representation that money is the reason for declining APD
manpower because he will be gone. Mayor Berry was the one who said Ray Schultz was the
right man for the job, but he holds no responsibility for this mess because he is the "better
man." I bet he is glad he said that. It is amusing how Berry
acknowledges the benign mistakes,
like imposing college requirements on APD hires, but dodges reporters on the mistake
of retaining Ray Schultz, and Kathryn Levy, who are now embroiled in Tasergate. As quick
as the article praises Berry for being "the better man" and appearing to look past
disagreements with critics within the police department, in the same breath, it shows how little he
thinks of officers dedication, by blaming all of this on officer's greed. Berry's statements amount
to pointing the finger at employee greed. That greed comes right back on him with what
Schultz pulled, and the next article to be addressed. Berry says all of this because he knows that his
term will be up before it is proven that money had nothing to do with any of this. Berry is
only buying time, and making fools out of anyone stupid enough to fall for his lies. The manpower
situation will not improve, because APD is notorious, and Berry owns that. Mike Gomez says “He’s like an
ostrich in the sand. … He’s the master of deflection, that guy,” about Mayor Berry, and no truer
words can be spoken. Misrepresentation, lying and claiming" being taken out of
context" are Berry's greatest tools. It is amusing how Berry claims that
Police reforms “did not start when the
DOJ walked in the door." No they started when Berry heard they were about to kick down the door.
Berry never wanted the light shined on Schultz's criminal enterprise, if not
only just because it would sully his bid for the governor's office, and his actions proved it, starting when he
vetoed city council's request. To top it all off, the comment of "The mayor “faced the investigation
and the findings head-on, and has worked hard to pull together the funding and support to
implement the improvements outlined in the consent decree,” "spewed by the CEO of the Greater
Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce Terry Cole, Takes the cake for propaganda of the year
award. Is there anyone not willing to whore themselves out in order to benefit politically in
some way around here? This mayor has dodged every single hard topic, hid during every crisis,
and continues to lie to the public daily, when he does poke his head out to take responsibility
for any positive publicity that comes along. After all, a true leader
takes credit for everyone else's
work. The Psychopaths at the Albuquerque Urinal couldn't have
picked a better picture to
portray the Mayor in this article. Place two U.S. Marshals on either side of him, and everyone he's
turned his back on behind him, and there you have it.
And last, but not least is a gem
in this trifecta of bull manure. It is written by the man of the hour himself, RJ Berry, and for the
Urinal none the less. See if your opinion gets published in the Urinal. In this article is where
the utter discredit will come for Mayor Berry. Berry made the fatal mistake of using one of the
department's biggest failures in his hypocritical pining for his plan to try to have the Return to Work
reinstated, in order to have rehires eligible to return to APD as officers again. Mayor Berry
decided to use the now retired Lieutenant Les Brown as his poster boy for what as he says "By
all accounts, APD Commander Les Brown is a good cop; so good in fact that he was just selected
to be the Chief of Police in Wickenberg." The Eye would like to know by who's account? Who is the
"all" here? Would it be Greg Brachle, who worked under Lieutenant Les Brown at APD SID?
Would Brachle say such a thing after he emptied a magazine into a car containing
two APD UC officers, striking both, and almost killing one, injuring him so bad that his life
will never be the same. Would it be officer Jacob Grant, who was shot multiple times by Lieutenant
Brachle? Would Jacob be saying this because Les was such a great cop, that he stood up for
Detective Grant, instead of letting the city cover for Brachle? Les was such a great cop, because he
was there for his officer? No. Because he wasn't. Les Brown was in charge of the biggest out
of control portion of APD, SID; a unit rife with out of control individuals. One of these
individuals was indicted for the shooting of homeless camper James Boyd. This same detective, Sandy
was previously Giglioed in federal court. He was also the
detective involved in indicting
judge Murdoch; a case we all know was tossed. This great cop stood by, and did nothing. What
most do not know is that Les Brown was such a great cop that he was not promoted to commander,
and had to sue for his rank. As a matter of fact, Les is such a stand up guy, that he entered a
class action civil suit against the city, then caved in, and sold out a third party in the case
when the city offered to promote him to make the lawsuit go away. Les looks out for number one.
Seems he is a great guy too. Berry says Wickenberg, AZ is lucky to have Les, as would be any
department in New Mexico, but this has been the trend of former high ranking members of APD when
they retire, to move to another state because no department here will take them,
unless you are former Commander Mike Grier who is one of the good guys, who is now the Chief
of Rio Rancho PD, which, by the way, is right next to Albuquerque, and not having
recruitment or crime issues. Lets look into this. You spend your whole life here, then retire with
a hefty pension, and you have to leave the state to get another job. It seems like these
"great prospects" are "running" instead of
"leaving." They are going to places where nobody knows about
them or APD. Schultz, Banks, Sailor, Archibeque, and the list goes on. There is nothing
fortunate about allowing a cancer to spread. Nothing! The fortunate thing is that communities in this
state know better than to hire one of these malfeasants. The current system is not driving
these employees away. The fear of getting caught is. While Berry talks about the system forcing
out experienced officers he just allowed one of the most
experienced officers, who was
also a rehire, to be fired for doing his job, and running video on every contact, including
oversight interviews, as he was ordered to do, just because former IRO Robin Hammer doesn't like him.
Robin Hammer is friends with Robert Perry. Perry would like to see his friend Robin appointed to
the Inspector General position. He would surely be able to call in owed favors then, and
"soften" up a whole bunch of stuff for his buddies.
There is one more thing the world needs to know
about Berry's poster boy for great seeds of leadership being littered all over the Southwest.
Jennifer Vega Brown was divorced coincidentally from Les Brown as Brown was going through
a Bankruptcy, and just before getting her settlement for roughly $340,000 from a lawsuit
she settled against BCSO, coincidentally protecting this money from any bankruptcy filings but
they still live together. Berry is a liar. His return to
work is just another pacifier to make the uneducated think he is doing something. When it fails,
he will blame the next administration, like he blames the previous. I think at this point
Berry's tenure with the city of Albuquerque can be summed up as burning down the barn while
trying to close the doors, after the horses have long run out. He is a failure, and coward who only
looks to blame everyone else, while dodging and delaying accountability, as he runs
interference for the criminals who brought the city to the meltdown it is now in. Berry has operated
alongside his minions, and underlings from a position of cover, while stacking the deck like nobody's
business, yet they go silent, and hide as soon as they get called out. Maybe he can write an
article here when one of his success stories lands a job as a chief in a city of the first class and he
is taken seriously in Washington.
And what do we say about kent
walz, joe kirby, karen moses, don friedman, sharon hendrix, dan herrera, D'Val Westphal, and the
rest of the yet to be named responsible parties over at the Urinal, that have been lying to
the public for years? Use their rag for your chicken coops, and puppy or parrot cages. That is
all it is good for. Because, when you have a bunch of immature brats in the positions these
people occupy, the best thing to do is take their audience away when they insult your
intelligence. Read the Albuquerque Free Press instead.
Life is too short for sociopathic journalists, with
personal agendas, who take out their frustrations on citizens and those that criticize them, and
engage in retaliatory, vindictive reporting, while colluding with city government, and contributing to the decay of ethical
and honorable values in society.
