Posts by Jeff Proctor
News for the People
I’ve approached this space recently with a clear idea of what I wanted to say: context on the importance of citizen police oversight in Albuquerque, which we tackled in last week’s episode of New Mexico in Focus, and some reflections on why I’m still a journalist the week before that. Today, such clarity abandoned me,…
Read MoreCitizens’ Defense
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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