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2 weeks ago | newmexicopbs.org | Jeff Proctor

I have written many thousands of words about police violence in Albuquerque, the city that has allowed me space to make a home for 23 years — nearly half my life. The bulk of those appeared in the Albuquerque Journal, where I covered the criminal legal system from 2004 through 2013. My focus narrowed around 2009, when an unignorable picture began to clarify: Police officers in this city shot a lot of people, killing most of them.

Jan 10, 2025 | newmexicopbs.org | Jeff Proctor

Alexander Uballez tossed his name in the hat to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico in 2020 after spending four years as a line prosecutor in federal court. It took a couple of years — the Senate confirmation process is an impenetrable bramble of bureaucratic bickering in this cursed political age — but he finally got the nod in May 2022.

Jun 20, 2024 | newmexicopbs.org | Jeff Proctor

If you’ve been following our show, you’ll know we haven’t had a permanent host for almost a year. Gene Grant left NMPBS last summer after a run in the chair that lasted more than a decade and a half. In the intervening months, Senior Producer Lou DiVizio, Our Land Senior Producer Laura Paskus and I have shared the duties — putting us on your screens far more frequently than we ever bargained for — while we searched for a new host. I am delighted to report that the search is over.

Nov 17, 2023 | newmexicopbs.org | Jeff Proctor

There’s no down-the-middle, dispassionate way to characterize the story that appeared Oct. 26 on the Albuquerque Journal’s front page under the headline, “Former BernCo sheriff, undersheriff named in cross-country machine gun scheme”. It is, to borrow a term repopularized in the 1960s by beloved New Journalist Tom Wolfe, bananas.

Nov 11, 2023 | newmexicopbs.org | Jeff Proctor

I’ve approached this space recently with a clear idea of what I wanted to say: context on the importance of citizen police oversight in Albuquerque, which we tackled in last week’s episode of New Mexico in Focus, and some reflections on why I’m still a journalist the week before that. Today, such clarity abandoned me, replaced by a socking in of the low-drifting clouds I’ve known too often in my decades at the keyboard.