The City of Albuquerque has become an unsafe city to live in
as of the last few years. The District Attorney received millions of taxpayer’s
dollars to hire more attorneys to move cases along in his office. Major violent crimes in this city are due to drugs, gangs selling drugs, and domestic violence.
Yes, Domestic violence cases are left sitting on a table for
months without any follow up. The legislature passed a law that would remove
guns from someone accused of violence toward a household member yet if the
cases are not followed up on then it is just another unenforced law on the
books. The city police have expressed an unwillingness to enforce such laws.
Drug dealing on Central at night is out in the open right in
front of The University of New Mexico yet the police are being paid overtime to
police nice neighborhoods. The police are getting something called Chief’s
Overtime where they are paid time and a half for working for private
neighborhoods and corporations as private police. This during a time of too few
police officers on our streets. People are dying daily on our streets
and the police take hours to show up for crimes. Children are getting drug
needles in their feet while playing sports in local neighborhood parks. The
homeless are dropping hundreds of drug needles in those local parks while they
camp out next to or in them. Yet cameras bought for the local city police force
are sitting in your local Wal-Mart parking lots.
Once a case does get to the District Attorney’s office
deadlines on these cases are not meet within the court system. Evidences is not
shared with the defendant’s attorney on time. Judges are being forced to
release defendants back onto the street and families are asking where is the
justice? The District Attorney is blaming judges and the court system. He takes
no responsibility for his inaction or misconduct within his own office. The
judges in this city must follow the laws, the state constitution, and case law
and are not allowed by the system to rule on issues in the press that may or
may not be backed up by evidences presented in court by a district attorney.
Now the District Attorney has the Mayor blaming local judges
for his inability to do his job correctly. So it is time for the public to
demand accountability from not just the city police force but also the district
attorney.
Bernalillo County
District Attorney Torrez do your JOB!!!
