Albuquerque Police Department; APD Tape 40

or is it is because it's been thirty six john paul's chief of police in st louis the edges of her ears to do is to follow a person for orientation through graduation rate in training courses for well trained officer what does the society

i think it's pretty obvious when prices freezes issued a statement what price the society pay for poorly trained police officer i think would be pretty obvious that the average says police officer is charged with an awesome responsibility has the power to restrict people's liberties rest on and also has the power to take a life of maybe it's an awesome responsibility and so the training of an individual who has those kinds of responsibilities that needs to be the best we can give no matter where they serve as well as volunteers that their pets

will we have one of the same is because i'm the chief of the albuquerque police department we have one of the finest about the force police academies in the country i believe at my heart so i think the agency's fines for a progressive look to not only here in the states for innovative ideas innovative training and concepts look to at the national level as well i have friends all over the world in the police feel like travelled extensively and i've seen other agencies and all else that albuquerque is department academy app installs that he was qualified to train we don't just take people who one of the instructors at the academy they have to have demonstrated their abilities and expertise in the field of the train all full time staff instructors at the academy have extensive resonates us many are considered experts in their field and then the instructors there are few hours apart were

doing other functions who come in to obstruct as well as some outside and still we have a just a fine fine country of instructors american policies as well what is it time doesn't realize the value of discipline you know in you in an enormous issue that it went terribly it was the reason for that is this well i don't know that i would characterize it as harsh military does certainly disciplined in our academy we are a paramilitary organization supports police and we try to provide officers everything from

communication skills do with intrigue the public community policing concepts are constantly being meted out to all of our training locks on that something that the vicars constantly and but we also the reality of the situation is that people who choose to be police officers have to know that there could very well come a time in their careers when they are asked to use deadly force when there rolling around in a back alley three o'clock in the morning with someone who was hired piece of pure methamphetamine trying to find a taker going until late and was so we're trying to give them just an enormous base of knowledge and show that they have an inner strength that they may have to go to save your life to save a fellow officers live for say citizens

but they have within them so that's all part of this sources say this is that right no you can't say we're safe and this idea go for pet health nurse article for a major issue is it generation oh no oh no two journalists

voters sure an oversight of how things have changed not only the community but in policing across this country are we many many police departments have been reactive completely reactive anti to nine one one you call we talk that's a function event as the chief of police i can tell you to one day an organization that is just nine one one you call we come would be very easy to do compared to trying to run an organization that is trying to change organization to change the way we do business as many many police agencies are doing right now to one of growth of providing the officer's gun ownership and by that i mean what these officers are anchored to their beats by more than just a call sign to where they they take ownership and territorial

moves of the section of the city in the watch that they're gone and they'll and then building partnerships with action when they were associations with the business leaders were the churches and on and on and on problems so we use we we used to do a long long time ago and used to be the world foot be your bicycle was state of the art in the nineteen seventies and eighties it became carson computers go away from that in our building full circle again to try and get the officers to know their community the community and other officers things are just changing in this world and in policing and it's very difficult in an altar setting up listening to change your position a culture what is what is our job what is it that we support to do mom and says i believe in my heart and whistles that the vast majority of people who come to police

as a profession are answered the call and it's a calling to public service that truly wanna make a difference in the community they want to improve the quality life of their citizens and if that is true because i believe it is then it's very easy to show an officer this is how we can do it's not just throw people in jail and tickets it's hoping that they weren't figure out how we can reduce the speed is coming through or keep the pipes from being stolen and the driveways of those kind of don't know it financial reform twenty years ago what

really changes you're sure mom i entered to yonkers police academy on june two third nineteen seventy seven was a memory problem with the forty force cadet class we started about twenty eight twenty nine getz on day one we graduate about eighty and that's when a standing at the seventy senators about the same operatic it's important to note that not everybody who wants to wear this uniform gets the opportunity to that clearly two or three percent of everybody who fills out an interest court for department makes it to the front door are can and i think that's important to show that we don't just take anybody that wants to not everyone is cut out to be a police auction again it's an awesome responsibility so you that you can then see how many people are recruiting in selection you this section that's the process to see the class of security reform cadets all the

third year for the debts that are seeded on day long orientation we average about ten percent or more loss by the time they graduate sometimes a war so it's the people who finally graduated and then were pressed into service and serving their communities in albuquerque have made a major commitment they've gone through quite a bit and they should be very very proud i should their community that they are the best that we just all put anybody out there on the streets of albuquerque tom things that have changed when i graduated the police academy april nineteen seventy seven i spent my first two years working the software in a graveyard the midnight shift and back in those days would have computers infected have walkie talkies are car radios which was our

lifeline were pulling out of the patrol cars and when you got out of the call that you just touched on you on your own call it where you didn't know where you were to cut back on the radio and said no clear evidence of kayla rae from mexico but we also knew we talk about ownership and the integrity that family if a radio operator try to dispatch an officer from another area to a call him it again soon i presented that offshore grab them i can tell a radio operator you know that might eat i'll be done with a call mana five or ten minutes i'll take it yes the teenager pierce about poaching your calls it was alicia i knew who the bad people were at the crux of mine my neighborhoods and really good people wore the neighborhood leaders the business community i i owned jeans territory

in the early eighties when we got computers in our courts and the thing the hardest there was these computers while they helped us they also curtis ones guard because what they did was they were minus it's all computer could do was i have a pot full of twenty five calls here in this area town in as susan officers clear any dissent or and that's all it did so what we ended up doing or the next ten twelve years was creating an environment to where officers they maybe weren't they may be assigned to south broadway but they were answering calls and its forms in the north valley downtown paralysis pursue an all night going back and forth because the computers to get the next call was in the harbor we took away that territory was an omission we also was a department failed to keep

pace with the explosive growth of the city ends so what ended up happening was one of the police officers we've got twenty or thirty calls holding and we've just got a clear the calls as best we can so it took away the officers on jupiter torrents we are now struggling to get that back by hiring more officers pass by using alternative responses to to what we'd normally were dispatched officers on our and in those kind of things and then building partnerships with community and problem solving what needs to be problems so that was a major changes i've seen twenty years and for a while it was and waters and the wind would certainly would anyone want to be the officer i it again and go back to squeeze it may sound to what i said earlier in this interview

i believe that the vast majority of people who come to police are truly answer the call into public service and they want to make a difference is not a paycheck new weekday compete with private industry on and frankly what police officers are being asked to do in the nineteen nineties first as what we were asked to do it when in the seventies is vastly different the job descriptions totally different and the expectations of the public or completely different the public expects certain things out of their police and it's not just call when you come so how come when you call those are the kind of things that i think were challenging it's an extremely rewarding profession you can see those differences you can make a difference you can improve the quality of life and and that's what i think is so what people would still want to get to what i consider one of most battle of professions in the world to

want to be a loss for all seasons i owned my own business at the time that i was offered a job here i graduated high school in nineteen seventy nine he was trying to draw them and i was a volunteer firefighter in the community i lived in namibia volunteer firefighters that i fought fires we wont police officers who again fall into public service they were volunteer another oft times to serve their community you know volunteer firefighter recently got the very very interested in and the field and i begin to compete back on the east coast or live but at that time in the area where i live in a commune was very very bad shape police departments way police officers often hire and i go west young man and i

started to compete for jobs out here was in the city of albuquerque was extremely inviting to me i competed for the job was offered a job in the forty fourth cadet class took it when that's without a question it gave a panel business time i was making fairly good money and not sold it it came out here for three dollars sixty one cent an hour job with no guarantees because as you've seen the new documentary there's no guarantee that what you make and you're going to graduate on when i did it in this city is my home i met my wife here my children and go off here with our state with his department's chief of the recent failures as well it's a great place

i consume us over a lot it is again going back to the comments that are made about the new organic kind of thing it's constantly changing our our procedures and policy manual or training or academy it's a living breathing thing changes day to day out hopefully answering those questions here when i just about taking in serving mean if you look at our documents on the side of a police car's on the official letters a common office the message would find since the warrants that with our community in all those aspects so to break down their student to get those officers ingrained in them from the very beginning we are here to work in partnership with the scissors work and the weird part of the community and to make this a better ones that's that's an

easy question i mean we we raise our hands take that oh we we're here our whole job is to services and that's what we do and i would put it is who's for what comes first to come second obviously i want every man with his department to take your car we'll take care of each other we can't take care of the community but i think it's much bigger than that trying to devise who school comes first we need to take care of everybody with trainings about the with the jobs you know those offshore and it would've been so much and i you know how one of those oscar broken the ice just like that and change your friend's opinion of the albuquerque police department cops jenner had just one of those officers walked up and just entered into casual conversations some egypt and clearly hasn't gone to a month tonight tonight tonight that the shot where the state and it had just entered into that conversation we broke the

ice and melted it right away and within five minutes they left your friends would act wholly different opinion of my departed <unk> we try to recruit them for this but i think we do a pretty good job we we train constantly from the moment they come into the police academy to that moment