Posts by Jeff Proctor

Public attention has waned, as it so often does, during the last few years of federal oversight at the Albuquerque Police Department. A post-COVID spike in crime, presidential politics, a massive police corruption scandal — it’s easy enough to see how folks lost touch with the meticulous, numbers-heavy happenings inside a federal courtroom meant to…

I have written many thousands of words about police violence in Albuquerque, the city that has allowed me space to make a home for 23 years — nearly half my life. The bulk of those appeared in the Albuquerque Journal, where I covered the criminal legal system from 2004 through 2013. My focus narrowed around…