39 apply to be Albuquerque's top cop
Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal When James Dobson was let go as police chief of Opa-locka, Florida – a small city of 16,000 in Miami-Dade County – it was because of high crime rates and his lack of progress in turning around a troubled department, according to an article in the Miami Herald. Four months later, he was one of the applicants to be the next chief of the Albuquerque Police Department – as is the man who fired him, Opa-locka City Manager John Pate. Pate and Dobson were two of 39 candidates who had applied to be the city’s next top cop. When reached by phone Thursday, ...