He reports to US District Judge James Browning who is overseeing the consent decree. Ginger says many things in his 331-page report that covers February through July 2021. James Ginger, the Federal Monitor appointed to oversee the APD reform effort released a fiery report blasting everyone involved in the investigations of the use of force incidents. Want more news like this? Get it delivered to your inbox for FREEĪnother match was thrown in the woodpile when in November, Dr. Sylvester was already retired from APD and Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department and took the job to get it going but never said he would stay forever. This position also oversees discipline, training ways to implement positive culture changes within the police department. Stanley was the first person to tackle this position that is responsible for providing assessments of APD’s compliance efforts with the DOJ mandate. Sylvester Stanley, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer and Superintendent of Police Reform resigned earlier this month. One of those resigning said in his letter that the board was not a tool for police oversight as intended by the Department of Justice’s court-ordered reform attempt but is nothing more than an advisory board and a scapegoat for all the problems. The CPOA recommendations have no teeth as the Police Chief does not have to follow them. Historically, this has been a tough board to fill with qualified candidates willing to do the training required and then put in the hard and thankless job of reviewing police complaints and use of deadly force incidents. Within a couple of months of filling the open positions, four out of nine members of the Civilian Police Oversight Agency have resigned. Diane McDermott is currently acting as interim director of the CPOA, or what is left of it. His resignation letter blasted the CPOA board in particular for basically undermining the accomplishments that had occurred under his leadership by opening up his position to other applicants after he asked to be reappointed.

He had been the director for seven years and he didn’t go quietly. In October Civilian Police Oversight Executive Director Edward Harness resigned. To say that police oversight in Albuquerque has been dealt some punches is an understatement.

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