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Looking Ahead to a Post-DOJ APD

May 30, 2025

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This week on New Mexico in Focus, we explore the future for the Albuquerque Police Department, now that an 11-year, federally mandated reform effort has ended. Police Chief Harold Medina strikes a reassuring tone, telling NMiF host Nash Jones: “We’re not going back to where we were… We’ve built a strong department that has accountability,…

Looking Back at APD Reform as Consent Decree Ends

May 22, 2025

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This week on New Mexico in Focus, we explore what the end of federal oversight at the Albuquerque Police Department means for the city. On April 11, 2011, two plainclothes detectives killed 27-year-old Christopher Torres, shooting him three times in the back in his family’s backyard. Since that day, his parents, Steve and Renetta…