Vote For Your Future, Not Fear
Accountability for a district attorney runs through the same mechanism that's supposed to work for everyone else. Voters. That's it. That's the whole apparatus. Which is why it matters enormously who is and isn't allowed to be one. Who the performance is for, and who pays Bregman isn't solving murders. Albuquerque's violent crime resolution rate is public and it sits near the bottom among comparable American cities. The APD federal consent decree is largely worked through and isn't the live story anymore. The live story starts in 2008, when a defense attorney and a private investigator built what federal prosecutors have called a criminal enterprise: officers paid in cash and hotel stays to skip court dates and lose paperwork so DWI cases collapsed, guilty and innocent defendants alike, with senior corrupt officers taking referral fees for recruiting junior ones. It never sat inside one department. At least thirteen officers across APD and the Bernalil...