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Mon May 16, 2016, 04:02 PM May 2016

Keeping track of video too difficult of a task for APD?

Guess what? Again, no video.

That’s a familiar story at the Albuquerque Police Department, where too often there is no lapel camera video to be found. Now there’s no traffic video, either.

First, the city destroyed the cellphone of former Sgt. Adam Casaus. Now, there’s no video footage from traffic cameras at the intersection where Casaus, who was off-duty but still in his patrol vehicle, broadsided a vehicle in which Ashley Browder was a passenger. Browder died at the scene in February 2013. The driver, Lindsay Browder, was seriously injured.

U.S. District Judge Robert C. Brack, who is overseeing a civil lawsuit the Browder family filed against the city, issued a scathing ruling calling city officials “at least grossly negligent” for not preserving Casaus’ cellphone after the criminal case was over ...

http://www.abqjournal.com/774701/keeping-track-of-video-too-difficult-of-a-task-for-apd.html

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