Skip to content

Citizens’ Defense

November 4, 2023
Two men sitting at a table talking to each other.

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…

Read More

Policing in 2020: Community Organizing | Web Extra

September 25, 2020
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…

Read More
New Mexico in Focus is on hiatus as our team gears up for coverage of the general election; we'll be back with all new journalism in October.