Police War on the Poor: The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
Submitted on November 23, 2011
By DAVID CORREIA - November 23, 2011
...[Albuquerque Police Department] officers are violent by nature, self-selected to the force because of the opportunity to kill with impunity. The numbers seem to suggest as much. Police killings in Albuquerque are three-times what is found in comparably sized cities and is similar to New York, which has 14-times the population and a police force 34-times larger than APD...And there’s ample evidence of a frightening blood lust among some APD officers...[such as one who] posted his job description on Facebook as “human waste disposal.”
