Since 2010, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have shot 40 people, 27 of whom have died from their injuries.
For a city of just 550,000 people, Albuquerque now has the highest rate of fatal shootings by police in the US, eight times that of the police in New York City and nearly double that of Chicago’s police department.
In early 2014, police officers killed James Boyd, a homeless man with a history of schizophrenia.
His killing, caught on an officer’s body camera, sparked national outrage over police brutality, and two officers are facing murder charges for the fatal shooting. It’s the first time in decades that an Albuquerque police department (APD) shooting has led to criminal proceedings against an officer.
Yet, in the last few years alone, the city has paid tens of millions of dollars to families bringing civil lawsuits against the police. But the families say many of the officers involved have escaped scrutiny and remain on the force. Officers, who, they say, should have never been allowed to join the police force in the first place.
After Boyd’s death, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) released a scathing report on the APD, which was based on a 16-month investigation. It highlighted patterns of unconstitutional and deadly use of force and “culture of aggression”.
Since then, the police have insisted that they’re implementing reforms in agreement with the DoJ.
But in interviews with Al Jazeera, former officers, local lawyers and journalists say change is only scratching the surface and that the corrupt and violent culture of the police department continues unabated.
Fault Lines investigates how the Albuquerque police force has become one of the most violent and deadliest police departments in the US and asks if any of the officers will face any accountability.
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A hero in his own right Officer will be decorated and promoted for his bravery on shooting a civilian in the back
I’m wondering how long the people will tolerate this crimes and take the laws on their hands ?
WELL LOOK AT ALL OF THESE SELF EMPLOYED POLICE THEY WORK FOR THEMSELVES AND SERVE THEMSELVES
AS IT SAYS ON THE SIDES OF THEIR CARS …. TO SERVE AND PROTECT THEMSELVES
Hurrahs for qualified qualified for sovereign citizens true pillar of society
WHAT A DISGRACE, QUALIFIED CITIZENS FOR MURDERERS
THANK YOU SUPREME COUT
IM HOPING THAT THIS HAPPENS TO ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS THEN WE WILL SEE HOW YOULL FEEL ABOUT QUALIFIED IMMUNITY
Keep in mind that
Murder
Perjury
Excessive force
Harassment
Are ok according to the Supreme Court.
This is why they out of the air came up with qualified immunity
It goes to show you the entire system is corrupt
From the Supreme Court to the janitor. Members of the same gang
They say most American cops are good and only a few bad ones. But it looks and sounds like there are only a few good ones and the majority are bad, corrupt, murderous cops. I use to side with cops but looking at all these documentaries, i think they have a culture of bad practices and corruption embedded in all their police department.
Sorry but if you call the police on YOUR FAMILY? YOU ARE AT FALT
If we want police? They should be highly educated and highly paid gentleman. And you should take care of your own family problems and not ask the police to be your counselor
Did they get a picture with the confirmed kill you know oppose they’re killed for the day..
after the confirmed killed did they gut him and stick his head on a stick..
You heard what the cop said before he even went up there to see the guy he’s going too kill him…
Am afraid 😳
It all comes down to one thing, don’t resist. Nothing happens when you do what the cop says.
Never ever ever ever ever call the Cops for help nothing good will happen and you might not survive the encounter
This is so fkd up
These are coward cops murdering inacent people for there own egos
Why is it ok to hurt people who are not commiting crime Then they kill them and get away
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Shouldn’t say he “won”
he was awarded that settlement. Nobody won anything
It’s waaayyy more than that now! They’ve shot and killed multiple innocent people and have covered it up big time. Trust me I live here in Albuquerque.
That guy Alan Gomez was a psycho high on meth and heroin. He is partly responsible for his own demise, his own brother called the cops on him.
Standoff with a knife 🗡️ WTF…SMH
The funding by Qatari makes me wonder how much funding other anti-American Arabic groups furnish to NM wannabes famous.. As for the shooting, I think a dog could have done enough to subdue the man. As for the APD’s violence, well, Albuquerque has a very large criminal population. The citizens suffer a murder rate unparallelled, per population, to larger cities. There are more gangs in Albuquerque than other cities have. Mexican cartel groups support a population of gang-members, motorcycle gangs, and drug-trafficers which overwhelms the local LEOs.
Why ? Because they can and no one (alive) can stop them. It will not stop even with this light on it. I used to place cops and robbers, and war games as a child. Some kids don’t grow up but the weapons they have are real and deadly.
How can towns afford these kinds of cops?
Hold it? How did the perp hold two knives grab a gun from the cop? This is like the people that the reports say they shot themselves in the head (twice)and its called suicide.
What I don’t understand, the city is covering officers back by paiding out lawsuits, and are keeping their jobs and not being charged, able to continue doing wrong
He was fired from the state police for time card fraud. That’s theft from an employer, a felony charge for regular citizens. He should have been a convicted felon and unable to carry a gun or be a certified cop.
You reap what you sew, If you call the cops and they kill someone, you’re an accomplice.
It’s a shame that the judges give these cops immunity that’s why they shoot people with impunity because they know they’re not going to pay for it in any way takeaway the qualified immunity and prosecute them when they’re in the wrong let them serve big time
I lived in Albuquerque NM area for 25 yrs. I and most everyone I know had at least one negative story to tell about the APD.
Look! Another example of murdering pigs.
Albuquerque is an extremely violent and lawless city. It’s also just about #1 for vehicle theft. Prosecutors release repeat offenders on their own recognizance on a daily basis. On Boyd, his own family could not stand him, and he was arrested multiple times for violence against police.
It’s been known for a long time that racist WS have joined law enforcement on all levels. And I believe that those same people who were mistreated in school ended up joining the police force to get retribution for all of the years they were bullied. A lot of them has the same mentality as school shooters!!!
I went to high school with a coward who joined the police force after he graduated. He wouldn’t set one foot in my neighborhood until he joined the police force then he was always in my neighborhood abusing his authority. This coward was in my math class and use to speak to me. One night he put me up against a car for something that had nothing to do with me and he acted like he didn’t remember me from school.
They were cowards then and still are. They hide behind their badges.
I see why people hate law enforcement!!!
Thats sad. I know they are very mean cops in Albuquerque.. i think there Bullies.
When i was 8 months pregnant, going through a Domestic situation n i had to fight back my ex for beating me up. Im the one who got arrested and the hand cuffed me to the back n parked under a tree n talked trash to me the whole time for 1 hour before they booked me . I hate apd n my ex for this. I have no respect for them.
This doc is such BULLSHIT
Mike Miller, whom I was told and admitted to by molesting homeogranted and leniated by conflict of interest, unethical fired judge of District Court Judge of Rio Rancho that deals heroin, Fetinol, and Cocaine etc., who’s running for magistrate court judge that was reported on the news after he was investigated in 2020 for extortion from the state who exonerated Logical Nonsense of narcotics distribution of drugs in school zones repeatedly. Nick Valdez admitted to me that Angela Miller, Mikes wife caught Mike gay molesting his son Mike Miller Jr at Diablo canyon lake north on St Francis rd. in 1998 following the European tour for the 1997 Jello Biafra funding of the tour. Nick Valdez was an accomplice of his late bigot dog wife Jessica Stohlman Valdez who was handed Nicks gun that Candice gave to him and Jessica shot a murdered Candices sister in 2019. Desiree admitted that to me.
Dirty cops if I ever seen
So sad
That’s why I say the next breaking bad spin off needs to be about police corruption and their involvement with a new criminal under world element
Looks like if you are fired from any police department you can always still work for Albuquerque New Mexico police department
With qualified immunity they can murder anytime they want to. Why would there supervisors and overseers try to cover for them? Tour which the end we the taxpayers have to pay that bill! Something does not smell right.
When you pay, it’s an admission of guilt!
My grandson was shot 27 times by police and others. He was mentally ill and they knew who he was but they brutally shot him. All I wanted was JUSTICE.
Too many serial killers in uniform
So when does any person know the person is mentally ill? should they not be in a mental institute if the parent knows they are mentally ill? why didn’t they put them away in a mental hospital? why keep them just because you love that person for something like this to happen? most don’t until something like this happens why does a parent keep a child (adult ] knowing anything can happen? just because of a mentally ill person. ok I will say it’s crazy} then why do you keep them and expect the law to be sued because they shot the person dead?
Ohh I got something in my eye 😢
my oldest sister was raped by an on duty ABQ police officer. Justice will be served guranteed.
what about tax payer money, paying for the lawsuits.
Matt Griffin, year was 88 or 89 ? He was a cop that was stealing cars then using them to rob banks. He killed my neighbor while trying to steal my roommates car….so he could use it as a get away car to rob a bank…..so….yeah….been going on for a very long time! Crazy!
Yeah…that dude was a really bad dude….the ninja bank robber cop that killed my neighbor. As I sit here though, I recall a time when I innocently was sooo close to danger between the “bloods” and the “crypts”…..and the time that dude came knocking on my door after he got shot…..whew…I’m glad I got out of Albuquerque
All the qualifications one needs to become a pig in Murcia, is low IQ and a propensity for extreme violence. The more Neanderthal like a person, the better chances to get a job as a ranking pig.
Sad part is that I live in NM and a lot of cops here now are so corrupt especially rrpd and Sandoval county ,
I’m not saying apd is perfect, but as a person who has spent the last 18 years in abq you must remember how bad crime is here.
I lived in Albuquerque when Boyd was killed. Reports of police shootings were relentless, every week, sometimes twice in a week. Albuquerque is not a large city. I remember that a young woman was shot in the back and killed because she was running away from the cops. No threat to the officers, and not a hint of an investigation afterwards. I worked graveyard shifts in convenience stores there and I owe my life to cops at least twice over. I’m sympathetic to officers, but Boyd’s death was due to a mental crisis that should have been handled by mental health workers.
I.
Murdered while camping!
FTP …esp you APD!
This is ridiculous. They say it’s UNLAWFUL, but they aren’t charged as if they broke the law. I’m not getting the logic. “What they did was wrong & we acknowledge it bc we’re paying you. However we won’t fire or charge the person that committed the CRIME”. Bc that’s what it is, a crime called MURDER!!!
Damned trigger happy cops!!!
The action of the APD comes from city leaders, the local court system and finally the PD itself from top down. Until the residents of Albuquerque change the leadership of the city, the courts and by the police department the illegal killings done by the cops will continue!!! The leadership of the police department is probably the main problem. It may be the police leaders have enough dirt on the city leaders and court system that the cops have control of every thing in the city. I suspect the sheriff of the county is part of the problem as the sheriff department should have control of happenings outside the city and control of civil happenings in the city which controls the court system.
USA SUCKS STAY AWAY! ITS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE JUST LIKE THEM SHITHOLES THE WHITES TALK ABOUT
REPUBLICANS LOVE THIS
Bluelinner. murderer,same thing.
I’m only now understanding why Americans are targeted by terrorist. From the countless videos of public servants taking law into their own hands, exposing corruption higher up in the ranks I now understand to eliminate the monster you have to find the creator. I don’t condone collateral damage created by terrorist acts but my eyes are awoken as to why this happens now.
Man, those cops at the beginning….. barely made it out alive…. imagine if that pocket knife had gotten within 15 ft of those poor officers. scary stuff
Funny when I have to say, “Thank you Aljazeera” ……. As after 911 many of our government agencies were calling it a terrorist organization……. But yeah, we’ve had to deal with this unnecessary police violence against our own people, at least my whole life, and when the cops are not maiming you, they lie and destroy your life and reputation with a pen in the courtroom
US has no right to judge anyone, as so much violence, murder and sickening corruption abounds here
And half the population chooses to remain blissfully ignorant to the sickening truth
The guy in the backyard got executed by the pigs and bastards right away make up a story to cover each other, Christopher never took a firearm from the pigs that’s what they say since the dead guy can’t speak and the cameras from these domestic terrorists are heavily edited….FTP
Imagine how brave they are by sending a k-9 after they shoot this guy to death.
Shame on you APD thanks for the West look bad we don’t treat people that bad in Salt Lake City
That’s why we cleaned house and got rid of bad officers in Salt Lake Valleys West Valley City Police Department one of the straw that broke the back I heard is how bad they screwed up the Susan Powell case
As somebody that lives in Albuquerque the culture that caused it is really a wild West I do what I want culture and don’t care about people that’s how everybody is down here
I remember this
The state of New Mexico got rid of qualified immunity.
And could you believe since 2010 there has been over 177 shootings?? I almost died by police too. Police are not safe here in NM
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Why aren’t the family members of these dirty cops being treated the same way
Police, Disgusting as usual. They’ve just murdered this guy on camera and they couldn’t care less!!! Police are Disgusting. Police makes things Worse , Not Better!!!
All police are terrorists and should be treated as such… you know tragic hunting accidents happen ALL the time just saying
These cops are the norm today . These cops have to go to the electric chair anything less is an outrage.
Cops are the undisputed scumbags of society. They have destroyed public trust for ever. Never go near a cop for any reason. They are violence junkies and need to tase or shoot an elderly person or child to get their fix at the cost of INOCENT lives. Why aren’t these maggots in prison.
That’s straight up murder.
Jumpy cops shooting people for no reason. Wtf I’ll stay in Canada. We don’t have thousands of armed citizens shooting each other . We have crime sure not this constant guns killing crime buy cops all the time
America is not a civilised country. A civilised state would not allow murder by its officers.
As a parent l would have negotiated all of them being sacked and banned from being a police officer globally nor be in the security industry and to be placed on a domestic racial terrorist list. And shove the money
What they need to do is stop sending cops to homes with people with mental illness. Send a qualified counselor to deal with the situation rather than the police.
Americans love paying their money for lawsuits. Otherwise they would make their politicians change the law and make cops accountable for their crimes
He shot 3 unarmed men and still working as cop. Wow😮
Albuquerce is a dump.
Crime Drugs Corruption
Can’t ever forget this astrocity .
Yesterday day a short said if you don’t like cop’s call a crackhead, ignorant man said that. Police are not trained for dealing with disabled people and their still clueless. So if you call the police be aware you or your loved one can be gunned down. I don’t like bad apple cops weed them out alreay.
already*
Has albuquerque was been dangerous
Even in the 80s and 90s????😮
it was majorly affected during the crack and gang epidemic. Major drug hub for the rest of the country. I25 and I40.
I live in a suburb of Albq. and the system has made ZERO improvements for those suffering with MH yet they get millions to improve services. Where and whose benefitting? LE and MH hospitals are revolving doors. Its clearly not helping those suffering, the streets are filled with those clearly struggling MH issues.
There is NO issue that a cop can not make worse.
Almost every city in America post 9/11 saw a rise in police misconduct. Don’t even get me started on all the homicides caught by their own body cam and they still can retire with full benefits, and disgusting qualified immunity became their license to kill and walk away scot free. The word is out on American police. Every foreigner now knows they could be killed, jailed, beaten by American cops which Is so absurd to them because police in their countries are not murderers.
Nut job..no loss
Boo fkn hoo
Some say it was a rogue cop that committed the west mesa murders.
Fun fact. Boyd’s brother donated 500 to the homeless shelter after he was paid out 5million. He also only attended 1 day of the trail. Trial lasted weeks. Bonus fact, the park you interviewed him at was condemned by the city and shut down because it was over run with homeless.
Now look. The state ended qualified immunity, & crime is out of control. Careful what you wish for.
I need help. APD and city employees threats along with DA employees. The latest was a flash drive with Lear threats. I won’t leave my home. An ADA has harassed me since 2009. The defamation done started in 2008 and it gets worse. Sorry I’m not suicidal. One cop was planning, clearly, he wanted me to be his first notch of killing a suicidal person. A long time of abuse and harassment BUT I AM STILL HERE. That same ADA who let my ex get away with years of abuse when she had ex parte with him she sends police she has dismissed every crime against me. I’m not safe. Can’t call APS, 242-cops, no one. I’ve tried for years. The defamation was done years before I knew anything. The hate from a city 911 IT employee with hate, threats, and pedophilia. He kept his job. A federal crime.