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Citizens’ Defense

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By all official accounts, nearly a decade of federal oversight for the Albuquerque Police Department is lumbering to an end. Whether the court-enforced consent decree between the U.S. Justice Department and the City of Albuquerque has been successful is a question with which I spend considerable time — thinking, talking with friends and sources, thinking…

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Policing in 2020: Community Organizing | Web Extra

A demonstrator holds up a sign reading "NO JUSTICE NO PEACE".

September 25, 2020 – Host Gene Grant and our guests spend a little extra time online to discuss efforts to reform the Albuquerque Police Department, and how leadership and the selection of a new police chief can impact those efforts. Host/Correspondent: Gene Grant Guests:Laquonte Barry, Black New Mexico Movement OrganizerSean Cardinalli, Truth to Power New…

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