Outrage Over Racist Remarks by APD Officers

This week on New Mexico in Focus, two advocates examine a recording that captures APD officers using racial slurs and violent language, taken moments after police shot and killed a 30-year-old man. Daniel Williams of the ACLU of New Mexico tells Executive Producer Jeff Proctor why that recorded conversation is indicative of the “culture of aggression” at the Albuquerque Police Department. Then, Tiffany Jiron of the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women talks to Jeff about the troubled history with APD and the city’s Indigenous community. 

Senior Producer Lou DiVizio looks at the minimum wage employees are paid across the state, as Albuquerque’s City Council considers adjusting the rate.  

Gabrielle Uballez, executive director of New Mexico Voices for Children, talks to correspondent Russell Contreras about her work searching for new solutions to child poverty and why she wanted to take the issue on.     

All New Mexicans know how important water is to our state, but “water management” isn’t a neutral term. In conversation with Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus and in her new book, “Fluid Geographies,” Dr. K. Maria Lane analyzes how the state’s authority over water isn’t based on objective science but is part of a larger structure of moving water and authority away from the people who lived here and into the control of Anglos.

Host: Lou DiVizio

Segments: 
Racist Remarks by Officers and APD’s ‘Culture of Aggression’ 
Correspondent: Jeff Proctor 
Guest: Daniel Williams, Policing Policy Advocate, ACLU of New Mexico 

APD’s Troubling History with Indigenous Community 
Correspondent: Jeff Proctor 
Guest: Tiffany Jiron, Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women 

Comparing Minimum Wage Rates Across New Mexico 
Correspondent: Lou DiVizio 

Fighting Child Poverty in NM  
Correspondent: Russell Contreras  
Guest: Gabrielle Uballez, Executive Director, New Mexico Voices for Children 

Talking Water Management with ‘Fluid Geographies’ Author 
Correspondent: Laura Paskus 
Guest: Dr. K. Maria Lane, Author, “Fluid Geographies: Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico”