.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... The public should find the latest Albuquerque Journal reporting by Elise Kaplan illuminating, “Monitor blasts APD for failure to police itself” (Nov. 7), as it confirms, yet again, the ongoing failure of the boondoggle known as APD reform. True to form, while taking no personal responsibility for this failure, Monitor James Ginger uses the media to remind the public, once again, how many years of successful “monitoring” he’s accomplished. If Ginger is as experienced as he believes, why didn’t he use his bully pulpit to inform the public, his employers, of the systemic flaws in the Department of Justice’s substandard Court Approved Settlement Agreement – centered on departmental bookkeeping vs. restructuring a criminal police department into community-centered and -led law enforcement?