Posted on 12/25/2007 4:54:30 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Albuquerque Police Department recruiters are getting creative since learning they won't meet their goal of 1,100 officers on the force by the end of this year.
With hope of making that mark in mid-2008, Deputy Chief Mike Castro said recruiters will be hosting a women's health challenge, passing out recruitment fliers while running an Arizona marathon and mining other cities for recruits.
But all of this won't add up to much if the department and the officers' union can't reach an agreement on higher salaries, said union Vice President Ben Baker.
"Our recruiting effort is hindered in that we have the eighth- or ninth-worst pay package in the state," Baker said. "But I'm optimistic."
Castro is, too.
Both think that with a higher salary, more than $19 an hour, and with the continued creative efforts, the department will reach 1,100 officers in about six months.
As of early December, the department had 989 sworn officers, Castro said.
"We were up over 1,020 in September," Castro said.
With the 126 people hired or in training, there would have been no problem meeting the 1,100 goal.
But too many officers retired this year, Castro said.
"For my career, the highest number (of retirements) was last year, 60," Castro said. "This year, 53 as of Monday (Dec. 17). We didn't expect that early on in the year, but there is no way to accurately predict that."
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There was a section of the paper devoted to mugshots of people convicted of DUI. Four pages of small pictures and only a handfull were Causasian. I was struck by the implausability so I looked it up. Albuquerque is 50% white. I wonder if the paper does this all the time.
I could not tell you.
I have not lived in New Mexico for several years.
Albuquerque is a sanctuary city for illegals, run by a sawed-off Mexican lifestyle Nazi mayor named Martin Chavez. And there is so much corruption and a$$-covering in the APD it’s mind-boggling.
That would have been about twenty years ago, now it is full of crack whores and illegals. And the cops are not any better, I got pulled over there once going three miles over the speed limit. No speeding ticket, they were just looking for someone to harass.
It’s a quagmire, a quagmire I tells ya!
There’s a great view of the city from the Flying J truck stop, which is on 98th Street at I-40, IIRC. Unfortunately, it was a MAJOR B**** getting out of there due to all the trucks going back and forth.
And they're not native New Mexicans? By native, I mean born and raised here. I've never in my life seen more drivers who, if they're not drunk, certainly shouldn't be behind the wheel at the given moment of observation.
Having consumed enough alcohol that you can no longer operate a motor vehicle in a safe manner. Breath bad enough to strip the lead paint off of the shipment of chinese toys in the tractor/trailer next to you. The level of 0.08 as cited by the law is irrelevant - many can and do operate at or above this level with no ill effects.
Couldn’t tell you. Don’t plan on finding out, either. Enjoy my beer, just not prior to driving.
That’s reasonable.
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