Dishonest and even criminal behavior marks Arizona police department and city leadership. Murderer Mesa officer Phillip Brailsford is a case in point. czcams.com/video/uGYL5US0tes/video.html&pp=ygUWYXBkIG9mZmljZXIgYnJhaWxzZm9yZA%3D%3D
Wow, what a career crusher, a written reprimand and suspension for one day! This is why cops should not be allowed to investigate themselves. Despicable.
"Crimes" See thats where you're wrong. When you or I claim bogus overtime from a private company, its a crime. When a cop does the same thing from the hard working people he's supposed to protect, he just gets let go. No crime committed.
@@TheOrangeRoad It’s not a crime to claim bonus overtime as a civilian. Chances are you’ll probably be fired maybe they’ll sue other than that you’ll be fine just jobless. As for cops working they work very hard doing a very dangerous job. They already aren’t paid a lot for most positions
@@lo2990 Dealing in absolutes gets us nowhere. There are excellent police officers and departments across the country. APD is far from excellent, by any measure. They get paid way too much for the service they provide NM. Time for new leadership and a serious department overhaul. To your point, SOME work hard... SOME work harder than the wage they earn. Many, too many, do not. What should be done?
@G If you think that's bad try getting GS Employees and Commissioned Officers working in the military fired. I've seen hundreds of millions of dollars wasted overseas on projects and nobody bothers to even get reprimanded because nobody really cares.
NM got rid of their qualified immunity so they can be sued for misdeeds against the public and I'm sure if enough of us local taxpayers got together we could make some kind of change if we protested enough
Smathers didn’t need to “carve out” time to investigate Edison’s timesheets. It should have been pretty obvious very quickly. Like Grover said, Smathers is either incompetent or complicit.
That POS Lt needs to be dismissed immeditely, charged and made to pay back. And the whole deparment needs to be held accountable. Such a disgrace. No wonder why people HATE cops
They need to lower their payroll budget, by that much, next year. The department obviously doesn't need it, since they were willing to pay it all out to one person.
Giving them more raises and bonuses all the time . That’s why we shouldn’t offer any more money. Wasting taxpayer money . While our property and safety gets worse
Your statement is so right they get more and more money more and more bonuses and the crime gets worse I think because they realize if crime is bad people will spend money. It's disgusting
Clearly, the State Police Chief, the Mayor and the Head of the APOA need to hold a presser and demand that the legislature do something about this out of control crime problem at APD! But, seriously, who works with scumbags like this?
Sorry to break it to you. There is no integrity in government agencies. Good for them to get away with it. Enjoy your extra money before it loses all it's value in couple of months.
every police officer in the world. Police are the worst gangbangers in the world and they have the system to back them up. From other officers, DA's and judges, they make sure to cover for each other. they're all corrupt
Who wants to confront the police unions? That is what this is about. They are heavily funded and corrupt as hell. Why do you think that police officers all over the country get away with the shit they do? Even if officials want to do something, they fear these unions.
A regular cop on deal duty making more money than the governor & only getting suspended for a few days then getting back to do it again then not even asked to pay back the money? Life is good! 'Murika
If the deputy chief can’t supervise any better than that then he should be fired and referred to Walmart as a greeter. Personally, I think he should be fired. You can bet there is a lot of shady stuff going on there and leaders covering it up.
Just like any type of abuse, if no one is held accountable it will continue. Allowing & ignoring it without consequence is despicable & an act of thievery. Such misconduct should be the definement of undercover.
This is simple. Fraud is defined as "wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain". Why has this officer not been arrested and his supervisor's not been fired?
I can only imagine the corruption that went on and never even saw the light of day back in the 50's, 60's and 70's.. ooh and 80's and 90's and 00's an 10's
Eliminate qualified immunity for all public sector entities/jobs including the courts and also eliminate public sector unions which are inherently unconstitutional.
Chief Medina "can't carve out time" to review time sheets but they're making double overtime to look at parking spots and go to Home Depot? Nobody asked you to review time sheets for free. If the taxpayers are paying for your time, they expect you to do your job. They need to clean house from top to bottom and start fresh.
This is something that shouldn't have happened. The guy is looking at a time sheet that lists 10 to 12 hours of overtime 7 days a week and he signs to approve the time sheet not once but 50 plus times that is neglect. Then to top it off he's found guilty of padding his paycheck with illegal entries He gets a two week suspension, in the civilian world its called embelzment. But they never charged the guy with a crime And know this guy is going to use the system to get reinstated because there was no criminal charges. C L
If this guy doesn’t get a long prison sentence it would be insane. Knowing how the Criminal Justice system is in this country though I fully expect he will get a slap on the wrist. The only way he gets more is if the story gets too big to sweep under the rug. After seven investigations? I mean what the actual hell. In-cred-ible.
If this guy doesn't get a long prison sentence, it's OUR fault! DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN, AT ANY COST! Camp out on the courthouse doorstep. Keep making phone calls to elected officials. Go to town meetings and express you're concerns. WE can't let up.... pester the S*@T out of city officials. STOP ELECTING THIEVES AND IDIOTS INTO OFFICE!!!!
At the organization I use to work for there was a monthly report that could be tailored to identify employees "projected" to exceed a certain threshold of income. This was a method to identify not only the employee being paid but also the manager not managing the overtime. Seems like a simple solution, but of course it would spotlight all managers not overseeing their duties...
Same here. I can see the weekly Hourly report of all 190 or so ppl who reports to me. If anyone has more than a few hours of overtime for more than 2 weeks, I have to explain to my higher ups why.
He's a cop . isn't he? Their ALL national embarrassments. I could be a little embarrassed too , for a quarter of a million dollars a year. Wouldn't you?
"Mistakes were made but eventually we will learn from those ever repeating mistakes. Maybe some day. Other than that there's nothing to see here folks so please move along"
There's no way it was only one guy doing this how many more are still getting away with it maybe taking a little break until this blows over and doing it again? Why isn't he being prosecuted?
They need to put in overtime claims to enable them to put in for a bigger piece of the citys budget, the same reason they create crimes by charging innocent people. He'll probably get a further, fat payout, as settlement for being fired, that will come as a result of the union taking legal action against the city
cops can be thieves too...I don't understand why people think being a police officer some how makes you a better person😂 or that somehow you should be trusted more.
How much more can honest Americans take when the largest criminal syndicate is law enforcement. see them they are confessing to a crime, and it makes no difference. I have a question, what is the point of having a (Department of justice) when the top dog will do nothing)
One of many who do this, especially as they near retirement. His colleagues are complicit with it but he becomes the fall guy. Overtime abuse along with city paying litigation for PD violations is a heavy cost to taxpayers.
DISBAND THEM. My uncle was a Sergeant for the San Diego PD, and he was indicted and convicted of Embezzlement and Abuse of Power - for which he spent a decade in a federal prison...and VERY rightly so!! They have MORE than proven their refusal to correct this defrauding of the local taxpayers. They should be held to a higher standard than citizens as they are the ones who are charged with enforcing the law - yet they are continually held above the law. Is it not enough that the taxpayers have to pay the settlements when the police department is sued for brutality and any other number of crimes?! What is wrong with this city that they just don't get it?? Oh wait, I know... they do get it, they just don't care. Citizens, VOTE OUT all of the city executives and disband that department. It cannot be reformed -- it must be remade. HOW are there not uproarious protests?? Are the citizens of Albuquerque THAT apathetic???
I suspect the ones who should have held these people accountable have their own “skeletons” in the closet and have done the same or similar corrupt actions.
Call the governor and let your voices be heard! I’ve told her that the police DO NOT need any raises or bonuses or any praises at this time. They need to evaluate. They need to hire people with integrity. They need people who will do the job and do it for the right reasons. And now there is this news story!?!!!
"Oh, we are so busy that we don't have time to look into the details." But they sign the work papers anyway. So basically they are saying that their job is to do nothing but place a signature on a piece of paper, while at the same time the signature serves no true purpose.
Cost the working people $285,000+ and he got a one-day suspension? Geez... that's kind of harsh for a measly $285,000+. A whole one-day paid suspension, you may as well have crucified him.
Back in the 80's, I noticed that my boss and others came to work about an hour late, but also left work about an hour late. It seemed odd that they were doing this. So I tried the same thing myself. Suddenly I noticed that my paycheck had gotten bigger. It turned out that the company defined overtime as the time one spends working after 5:00 PM.
FIRE THEM...I'm sure there is someone that doesn't know the loopholes yet... All the senior officers seem to know all the loopholes. I'm furious this is going on...since when? Base on Larry Barker's report....they all know they violated everything in the book. The very policy they suppose to uphold....
The Boston area uses PD for details. I know of a location that was supposed to have a detail in Boston. He was there maybe twice in 3 months of every saturday detail..
I support our Police Officers. There’s always a going to be stuff like this no matter where you live. But this city is out of control. We are tired of this amount of crime. No one ever reports the crimes anymore. We know that nothing will be investigated. I pay too much in taxes to live like this in Albuquerque.
Time to hire outside neutral entity to verify overtime of post??? I worked for the city n the past. My OOD is the person who verified and signed off on our OT sheets on that same shift before the shift was over. This should b mandatory for APD to pay their OODs to verify each officer ordered back for duty as needed / verify posts. There's no way them forms are designed to b complicated . I b driving 2am and see no police anywhere at night. Make the officer pay the money back and use that money to light up crime ridden areas... dark places, crime lurks
The higher rank a person is that is investigated means that he has more dirt on the people ranking above him. Thus they have to protect them to protect themselves. Pretty simple. Plus per this report he gets to keep all the money he stole.
If you think that’s a lot (which it is) Look up Police Departments in California, New York and New Jersey. Firefighters and Police Officers are making Physician Salaries🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
I can understand they're busy, but if they're signing off on massive overtime for a desk jockey wouldn't that catch a supervisor's eye at least once over a 12 month period?
Any community that allows this to happen deserves what they get. Very simple...RECALL OR VOTE OUT ALL VOTED POSITIONS INVOLVED .. Never let them work for any government the rest of their life... DA, POLICE CHIEF, MAYOR, ECT. He should at the very least paid it back.
People at the top should know what’s going on at all levels. Someone at all levels knew what was going on, they were complicit. When those at the top are derelict in their duties, can you expect the rest of the department to do differently? Well yes, we we expect more from each badge toting member. Kind of like james comey over at that once respected agency, the fbi, rotten to the core, as is much of the rest of the agency. Lying cheating and stealing should not be tolerated in law enforcement. Lying to the judges, lying to the Senate. Cheating the populace of justice, and stealing from the tax payers. Look at the useless Mueler report, the treatment of General Flynn, and so much more.
The attitude of City of Albuquerque associates which includes APD and AFD believe the City of Albuquerque works for them and not the other way around! In fact this former APD officer committed fraud and should be charged felony embezzlement of City of Albuquerque general fund! Being stupid is not a defense for being an embezzler!
Not for nothing bro, but the old mouthpiece knew he was doing wrong when he did it. That's HIS fault. HE is to blame for his own actions. This acceptance of responsibility thing is something cops at APD lack and it appears to be a requirement in order to be hired on. Real men own their failures. Cops at APD point fingers and pass the buck.
@@bradhuff256 it's a classic business move called time slippage. They teach it in business school. You let employees fudge time or tell them that's the normal way of time reporting so that when they stray from your vision you can claim theft. It's the oldest trick in the book.
@@seancostello150 Huh, well, most people were taught as children that stealing is wrong. How about this. The scumbag who committed the time card fraud is just as guilty as the manager who let him get away with it. And I'll go you one better. The union that negotiated this thefting opportunity is also responsible.
@@bradhuff256 usually the employee thinks it's standard practice and is assured it's correct reporting, they only find out its theft after the employer decides it's theft.
This is law enforcement? I have seen cops beat and arrest someone for stealing less than $2 worth of food because they were hungry. Stealing $150,000 is okay if you are a cop though.
Deputy chief should be fired too.
better yet, the city should sue the police chief to payback all of the fake OT he had approved.
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Never going to happen I'll just make a lateral move and become a New Mexico state police get in 0n I 25 drug trade
Dishonest and even criminal behavior marks Arizona police department and city leadership. Murderer Mesa officer Phillip Brailsford is a case in point.
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Wow, what a career crusher, a written reprimand and suspension for one day! This is why cops should not be allowed to investigate themselves. Despicable.
Good thing we have these news stations that investigate criminal activity. If only we had a group of people whose job was dedicated to solving crimes.
Well, that would be the police and the DA's office...uh, never mind. . .
What about the criminal activity of news stations?
"Crimes"
See thats where you're wrong. When you or I claim bogus overtime from a private company, its a crime.
When a cop does the same thing from the hard working people he's supposed to protect, he just gets let go. No crime committed.
@@TheOrangeRoad It’s not a crime to claim bonus overtime as a civilian. Chances are you’ll probably be fired maybe they’ll sue other than that you’ll be fine just jobless. As for cops working they work very hard doing a very dangerous job. They already aren’t paid a lot for most positions
@@lo2990 Dealing in absolutes gets us nowhere. There are excellent police officers and departments across the country. APD is far from excellent, by any measure. They get paid way too much for the service they provide NM. Time for new leadership and a serious department overhaul. To your point, SOME work hard... SOME work harder than the wage they earn. Many, too many, do not. What should be done?
Suspension for criminal activity, yeah that's not criminal itself, great job APD.... We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.
@G If you think that's bad try getting GS Employees and Commissioned Officers working in the military fired. I've seen hundreds of millions of dollars wasted overseas on projects and nobody bothers to even get reprimanded because nobody really cares.
We break the law to enforce don't make us scared
It's time for courts to stop assuming that cops tell the truth and defendants lie.
NM got rid of their qualified immunity so they can be sued for misdeeds against the public and I'm sure if enough of us local taxpayers got together we could make some kind of change if we protested enough
The courts are just as bad.
The courts lie too.
@Duke LivesDangerously yeah bud it was this big thing because we "followed" Colorado into the age of police accountability for crap like that
If these audits have no consequences it will continue. Jail them or revoke any retirement benefits and terminate.
Yep !! U hit it dead on the head 😆 🤣 😂
They're stealing from taxpayers. They should be arrested.
ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNITY
Prison for fraud and conspiracy for those that covered it up
Auditers make money on overtime looking into overtime abuse lol
The same people who enforce the law on you. Break the law. That sounds about right.
Sorry folks we got a break the law to enforce the law
@Matt Kearns
That seems about right.
Smathers didn’t need to “carve out” time to investigate Edison’s timesheets. It should have been pretty obvious very quickly. Like Grover said, Smathers is either incompetent or complicit.
That POS Lt needs to be dismissed immeditely, charged and made to pay back. And the whole deparment needs to be held accountable. Such a disgrace. No wonder why people HATE cops
Why did they get raises if so corrupt? APD needs a serious inquiry into all these crimes cops. This is why there's no trust.
Well when they investigated themselves they found they did nothing wrong, who would of guessed huh.
THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT BECAUSE THIS OFFICER GOT 2 WEEK SUSPENSION FOR STEALING?
"It happens because no one is held accountable." Is there a police station in America where there is accountability? I'm not seeing it.
It's called committing fraud! WTAF
He got busted doing all that, and yet he still felt entitled to appeal his firing. He should be locked up.
They need to lower their payroll budget, by that much, next year. The department obviously doesn't need it, since they were willing to pay it all out to one person.
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That should be at least felony.
It’s basically stealing tax payer money so yes, it ought to be a felony charge in the federal courts.
it IS a felony to someone without qualified immunity.
Giving them more raises and bonuses all the time . That’s why we shouldn’t offer any more money. Wasting taxpayer money . While our property and safety gets worse
Your statement is so right they get more and more money more and more bonuses and the crime gets worse I think because they realize if crime is bad people will spend money. It's disgusting
It all starts with leadership and, in this case, the police chief. They should all be fired and replaced.
Keller first
Replaced by who? Their the most over worked police department In the nation
@@gerropannell8504 When a dead fish starts to stink, it starts at the head.
@@johncharlesfarrell3144 I can agree with that
the real blame lies with those who live there without protesting over the government agent criminality and corruption…
Clearly, the State Police Chief, the Mayor and the Head of the APOA need to hold a presser and demand that the legislature do something about this out of control crime problem at APD!
But, seriously, who works with scumbags like this?
Sorry to break it to you. There is no integrity in government agencies. Good for them to get away with it. Enjoy your extra money before it loses all it's value in couple of months.
These very people are part of this problem & benefit directly or indirectly from the OT fraud.....no remedy possible.
This stuff never happens where I live in the Midwest. What is going on down there???
every police officer in the world. Police are the worst gangbangers in the world and they have the system to back them up. From other officers, DA's and judges, they make sure to cover for each other. they're all corrupt
Who wants to confront the police unions? That is what this is about. They are heavily funded and corrupt as hell. Why do you think that police officers all over the country get away with the shit they do? Even if officials want to do something, they fear these unions.
Fire them ! No Resign !!! That’s just another way they just get to go to another department!
Scum bags !!
A regular cop on deal duty making more money than the governor & only getting suspended for a few days then getting back to do it again then not even asked to pay back the money? Life is good! 'Murika
At this point Larry is the only one who can solve the unsolved crimes in NM
... one man crime stopper ...
If the deputy chief can’t supervise any better than that then he should be fired and referred to Walmart as a greeter. Personally, I think he should be fired. You can bet there is a lot of shady stuff going on there and leaders covering it up.
Lmaoo yes 🙌 refer these fools to Walmart as greeters 😂. Fucking corrupt ass system. Fuck APD sometimes fr.
He should be IN JAIL
He could be demoted to Mall Cop, maybe.
Probably was bribed with a box of donuts.
Just like any type of abuse, if no one is held accountable it will continue. Allowing & ignoring it without consequence is despicable & an act of thievery. Such misconduct should be the definement of undercover.
Been going on for years your comment hit it on the head
The chief should known and should be held accountable
This is simple. Fraud is defined as "wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain". Why has this officer not been arrested and his supervisor's not been fired?
They could have hired a lot of extra cops for all that money.
Why isn't there oversight on what the hell's going on with our taxpayers money. This is unacceptable
All in the Chief, so fire him.
Police corruption should be a Federal Crime, with Federal time.
Federal time is way too easy. Ask anyone in State pen, they'd do anything to serve federal time instead.
Meh, police corruption isn't as bad as politician corruption. Hang all politicians.
I can only imagine the corruption that went on and never even saw the light of day back in the 50's, 60's and 70's.. ooh and 80's and 90's and 00's an 10's
The deputy chief knew down what was going on. And we can be sure he was getting his cut.
What he means is ,they don't have time to do their job.
This guy could take a dump and claim OT
Eliminate qualified immunity for all public sector entities/jobs including the courts and also eliminate public sector unions which are inherently unconstitutional.
This is happening in every police and fire department across the country to a greater or lesser extent. No one wants to challenge The Brave Heroes.
Embarrassing for the 👮♂️ family especially the kids , GREEDY $
Chief Medina "can't carve out time" to review time sheets but they're making double overtime to look at parking spots and go to Home Depot?
Nobody asked you to review time sheets for free. If the taxpayers are paying for your time, they expect you to do your job.
They need to clean house from top to bottom and start fresh.
can’t you hear the hysterical laughter from all in that police force when they hear someone mention integrity?
This is something that shouldn't have happened. The guy is looking at a time sheet that lists 10 to 12 hours of overtime 7 days a week and he signs to approve the time sheet not once but 50 plus times that is neglect.
Then to top it off he's found guilty of padding his paycheck with illegal entries
He gets a two week suspension, in the civilian world its called embelzment. But they never charged the guy with a crime
And know this guy is going to use the system to get reinstated because there was no criminal charges.
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2 week suspension..80 hours Overtime! 😆 🤣 😂
Chuck-Ching
2 week suspension with the extra 142,000 that he already collected sounds more like a 2 week vacation to me!!!
For the money it's costing them I can hire a full-time person for a lot less to review all the time sheets
Larry Barker. "The peoples journalist" at it again! Get em cowboy!!
If this guy doesn’t get a long prison sentence it would be insane. Knowing how the Criminal Justice system is in this country though I fully expect he will get a slap on the wrist. The only way he gets more is if the story gets too big to sweep under the rug. After seven investigations? I mean what the actual hell. In-cred-ible.
More like he’ll get promoted
If this guy doesn't get a long prison sentence, it's OUR fault!
DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN, AT ANY COST!
Camp out on the courthouse doorstep.
Keep making phone calls to elected officials.
Go to town meetings and express you're concerns.
WE can't let up.... pester the S*@T out of city officials.
STOP ELECTING THIEVES AND IDIOTS INTO OFFICE!!!!
At the organization I use to work for there was a monthly report that could be tailored to identify employees "projected" to exceed a certain threshold of income. This was a method to identify not only the employee being paid but also the manager not managing the overtime. Seems like a simple solution, but of course it would spotlight all managers not overseeing their duties...
Same here.
I can see the weekly Hourly report of all 190 or so ppl who reports to me. If anyone has more than a few hours of overtime for more than 2 weeks, I have to explain to my higher ups why.
This guy is about to be a national embarrassment
He's a cop . isn't he? Their ALL national embarrassments.
I could be a little embarrassed too , for a quarter of a million dollars a year. Wouldn't you?
"Mistakes were made but eventually we will learn from those ever repeating mistakes. Maybe some day. Other than that there's nothing to see here folks so please move along"
What makes people think that they have a plan so good they'll never get caught?????? Unbelievable.
EVERYONE INVOLVED SHOULD BE FIRED!!!
good luck with that
I like that he admitted and got a written reprimand... I mean how could have lied ...the evidence too strong
"Edison has appealed his termination."
The fucking audacity.
Well I suppose he's got the money for a lawyer.
@@fireskycam9889 Bwahahahaha! You just won the internet
Put a lien on their house and or property
The statements made by this department and those in charge are the reasons there is no trust or respect for them.
Well, stop complaining and start firing!
We need a "Law enforcement agency" to monitor and police the "Police". Unbelievable!!!
Technically that's what the FBI is for.
We have one... Internal Affairs but you see how impactful they are
Theft and Officer misconduct an misconduct.
No Accountability for Unlawful Acts Happens when Those at the TOP Support it. *GREAT Job by Auditor, Thanks!*
*TRUTH is Powerful AMMO.*
There's no way it was only one guy doing this how many more are still getting away with it maybe taking a little break until this blows over and doing it again? Why isn't he being prosecuted?
They need to put in overtime claims to enable them to put in for a bigger piece of the citys budget, the same reason they create crimes by charging innocent people. He'll probably get a further, fat payout, as settlement for being fired, that will come as a result of the union taking legal action against the city
Tax payers money- Theft, plus the amount so big. It's for sure a felony. And he wants to get his job back.
The APD Supervisors were conveniently lenient on the violators--they all need to be fired!! So much incompetence in one Police Department!!!
The police chief literally said "we're too busy to do our job" and it was accepted. 😳
If they're "too busy" to keep time, I'll be their time keeper. I have a bba, I can spreadsheet, heck, I'll do it for minimum wage.
cops can be thieves too...I don't understand why people think being a police officer some how makes you a better person😂 or that somehow you should be trusted more.
How much more can honest Americans take when the largest criminal syndicate is law enforcement. see them they are confessing to a crime, and it makes no difference. I have a question, what is the point of having a (Department of justice) when the top dog will do nothing)
One of many who do this, especially as they near retirement. His colleagues are complicit with it but he becomes the fall guy. Overtime abuse along with city paying litigation for PD violations is a heavy cost to taxpayers.
We need to start checking surrounding counties
DISBAND THEM. My uncle was a Sergeant for the San Diego PD, and he was indicted and convicted of Embezzlement and Abuse of Power - for which he spent a decade in a federal prison...and VERY rightly so!!
They have MORE than proven their refusal to correct this defrauding of the local taxpayers. They should be held to a higher standard than citizens as they are the ones who are charged with enforcing the law - yet they are continually held above the law. Is it not enough that the taxpayers have to pay the settlements when the police department is sued for brutality and any other number of crimes?! What is wrong with this city that they just don't get it?? Oh wait, I know... they do get it, they just don't care. Citizens, VOTE OUT all of the city executives and disband that department. It cannot be reformed -- it must be remade. HOW are there not uproarious protests?? Are the citizens of Albuquerque THAT apathetic???
When the cops are criminals; .... that explains why there's so much crime
What a surprise that the sovereign citizens didn't get any charges against them.
Police departments need civilian oversight !!!!
I suspect the ones who should have held these people accountable have their own “skeletons” in the closet and have done the same or similar corrupt actions.
Call the governor and let your voices be heard!
I’ve told her that the police DO NOT need any raises or bonuses or any praises at this time. They need to evaluate. They need to hire people with integrity. They need people who will do the job and do it for the right reasons.
And now there is this news story!?!!!
I just can’t believe this happened, APD has such a STELLAR reputation!!🙄🙄🙄
"Oh, we are so busy that we don't have time to look into the details." But they sign the work papers anyway. So basically they are saying that their job is to do nothing but place a signature on a piece of paper, while at the same time the signature serves no true purpose.
There's a term for that called rubber stamping. Basically just signing off on things without actually checking them.
Here a state police trooper made over $250,000 by just these actions. He charged overtime when he was at home and more.
Cost the working people $285,000+ and he got a one-day suspension? Geez... that's kind of harsh for a measly $285,000+. A whole one-day paid suspension, you may as well have crucified him.
That’s exactly what your job is to make sure people aren’t fudging their timesheets it’s one of the most important jobs of a manager
Back in the 80's, I noticed that my boss and others came to work about an hour late, but also left work about an hour late. It seemed odd that they were doing this. So I tried the same thing myself. Suddenly I noticed that my paycheck had gotten bigger. It turned out that the company defined overtime as the time one spends working after 5:00 PM.
Rumor has it that a ton of PD's are fighting to hire this upstanding officer who found a loop hole to commit the so-called crime 😏
Need to review who of his superiors he made kickbacks to for looking the other way.
Thank You for all the time & work to do
A lieutenant what a disgrace of leadership. They should fire him too. For turning a blind eye.
FIRE THEM...I'm sure there is someone that doesn't know the loopholes yet...
All the senior officers seem to know all the loopholes.
I'm furious this is going on...since when?
Base on Larry Barker's report....they all know they violated everything in the book.
The very policy they suppose to uphold....
The Boston area uses PD for details. I know of a location that was supposed to have a detail in Boston. He was there maybe twice in 3 months of every saturday detail..
I support our Police Officers. There’s always a going to be stuff like this no matter where you live. But this city is out of control. We are tired of this amount of crime. No one ever reports the crimes anymore. We know that nothing will be investigated. I pay too much in taxes to live like this in Albuquerque.
Too bad you guys didn't vote in Eddy Aragon.
So the end justifies the means? Boot licker,
I support the police as well but there’s no excuse for this behavior and they all need to be held accountable. It starts with the police chief.
Time to hire outside neutral entity to verify overtime of post???
I worked for the city n the past. My OOD is the person who verified and signed off on our OT sheets on that same shift before the shift was over.
This should b mandatory for APD to pay their OODs to verify each officer ordered back for duty as needed / verify posts.
There's no way them forms are designed to b complicated . I b driving 2am and see no police anywhere at night.
Make the officer pay the money back and use that money to light up crime ridden areas... dark places, crime lurks
You support theft of government funds do you? That's a new level of insecurity.
The higher rank a person is that is investigated means that he has more dirt on the people ranking above him. Thus they have to protect them to protect themselves. Pretty simple. Plus per this report he gets to keep all the money he stole.
First off I can't believe he's making $120k a year without overtime.
If you think that’s a lot (which it is) Look up Police Departments in California, New York and New Jersey. Firefighters and Police Officers are making Physician Salaries🤣🤣🤣🤣🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
I can understand they're busy, but if they're signing off on massive overtime for a desk jockey wouldn't that catch a supervisor's eye at least once over a 12 month period?
Fire every employee suspected of fraud. Period!
Any community that allows this to happen deserves what they get. Very simple...RECALL OR VOTE OUT ALL VOTED POSITIONS INVOLVED ..
Never let them work for any government the rest of their life...
DA, POLICE CHIEF, MAYOR, ECT. He should at the very least paid it back.
People at the top should know what’s going on at all levels. Someone at all levels knew what was going on, they were complicit. When those at the top are derelict in their duties, can you expect the rest of the department to do differently? Well yes, we we expect more from each badge toting member. Kind of like james comey over at that once respected agency, the fbi, rotten to the core, as is much of the rest of the agency. Lying cheating and stealing should not be tolerated in law enforcement. Lying to the judges, lying to the Senate. Cheating the populace of justice, and stealing from the tax payers. Look at the useless Mueler report, the treatment of General Flynn, and so much more.
The attitude of City of Albuquerque associates which includes APD and AFD believe the City of Albuquerque works for them and not the other way around! In fact this former APD officer committed fraud and should be charged felony embezzlement of City of Albuquerque general fund! Being stupid is not a defense for being an embezzler!
A 2 week suspension? Ridiculous. He should be in prison for fraud.
They knew it is standard operating procedure for a majority of cops imo
Judging by the Chief, this was easy to pull off. He doesn’t sound or look like the brightest light on the tree.
They let them do it, even encourage it, so they have a reason to can them when they "turn" politically. That's what happened with the old spokes guy.
Not for nothing bro, but the old mouthpiece knew he was doing wrong when he did it. That's HIS fault. HE is to blame for his own actions. This acceptance of responsibility thing is something cops at APD lack and it appears to be a requirement in order to be hired on. Real men own their failures. Cops at APD point fingers and pass the buck.
@@bradhuff256 it's a classic business move called time slippage. They teach it in business school. You let employees fudge time or tell them that's the normal way of time reporting so that when they stray from your vision you can claim theft. It's the oldest trick in the book.
@@seancostello150 Huh, well, most people were taught as children that stealing is wrong. How about this. The scumbag who committed the time card fraud is just as guilty as the manager who let him get away with it.
And I'll go you one better. The union that negotiated this thefting opportunity is also responsible.
@@bradhuff256 the old mouthpiece was about to expose some serious corruption so they pulled out their secret weapon. (time slippage)
@@bradhuff256 usually the employee thinks it's standard practice and is assured it's correct reporting, they only find out its theft after the employer decides it's theft.
Seems like the entire upper chain of command needs to be fired
An accountant needs to audit this theft.
This is law enforcement? I have seen cops beat and arrest someone for stealing less than $2 worth of food because they were hungry. Stealing $150,000 is okay if you are a cop though.
This is called fraud
Anybody else that stole that kinda money would be facing charges.
If we can't trust the cops to be honest on a freakin' time sheet, *how can we trust them to be honest on a police report???*