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In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice ordered the Albuquerque Police Department to reduce its deadly use of force. Today, APD is in near-total compliance — but still killing at record levels.

The Department of Justice and an independent monitor cheered the successes of Albuquerque police in the latest hearing on its reform effort.

A recent assessment of Albuquerque police reforms found that civilian oversight is “in crisis,” with understaffing and excessive caseloads leading to inadequate investigations by the external board tasked with everything

Report says compliance with DOJ agreement is nearly complete

Albuquerque originally was paying the independent monitor $120,000 a month. Since 2019, he has made that and another $13,000 more monthly.

‘Champions’ of change have now emerged in the force, DOJ team says

As advocates in the city continue to call for justice after the SWAT standoff last week resulted in a boy’s death, the Albuquerque Police Department let a huge backlog stack up of investigations into officers using force, according to a federal monitor overseeing police reform.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill in the autumn of 1942 after the British victory in Egypt, the latest ...

Considering prescribed burns in the time of climate change.

An end to the process has also been articulated by police brass