Dr. James Ginger, Independent Monitor for the DOJ Consent Decree, to address LWVCNM July 8^th 

Dr. James Ginger, Independent Monitor for the Consent Decree between the City of Albuquerque and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning excessive police Use of Force (UOF) will address the LWVCNM General meeting Thursday, July 8^th at 12:00 pm (Zoom link to follow).  Albuquerque has a Court Approved Settlement Agreement (CASA, aka Consent Decree) with the US Department of Justice for APD Excessive Use of Force (UOF) enacted November 2014.  Dr. James Ginger was selected as the Independent Monitor of the CABQ Consent Decree 2015 and has released 13 quarterly Independent Monitor Reports (IMR), the most recent 5/2/21, evaluating APD/CABQ compliance with the 276 measurable paragraphs of the 344 in the CASA.  Federal Judge Browning (previously Judge Brack) supervises Dr. Ginger and usually convenes a Federal Hearing to review results; evaluate testimony by US DOJ Civil Rights Division and the US Attorney for NM; AMICI (APD Forward, Community Coalition, and McClendon Subclass); CABQ Attorneys; and APD leadership. LWVCNM has been a coalition member of APD Forward since inception 2014. 

Other cities across the US are also under DOJ consent decrees for Police Excessive UOF, including: 

https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/797666/download

“The department is enforcing 17 agreements with law enforcement agencies, including 13 consent decrees, and one post-judgment order. These Consent Decrees include: New Orleans Police Department, Puerto Rico Police Department; Seattle Police Department; Portland (Oregon) Police Department; Detroit Police Department; Virgin Islands Police Department; East Haven (Connecticut) Police Department; Warren (Ohio) Police Department; Albuquerque (New Mexico) Police Department; Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department-Antelope Valley; Cleveland Division of Police; Meridian (Mississippi) Police Department; Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff’s Office Ø Out-of-Court Agreements: Suffolk County (New York) Police Department, Beacon (New York) Police Department, Missoula County Attorney’s Office.” 

Dr. Ginger will discuss Problems, Issues, Needs and Solutions to Court mandated police reforms across the nation, including settlement agreements/Consent Decrees addressing excessive UOF by police, based on his experience at LAPD, New Jersey State Police, and Pittsburg, PA—all agencies he has either monitored in the past, or, as in the case of LAPD, has written the monitoring methodology for use by the parties in a DOJ police reform case. 

Dr. James Ginger is currently the Court-appointed monitor for the Court Approved Settlement Agreement (CASA) between the U.S. Department of Justice and the City of Albuquerque Police Department.  Dr. Ginger, a former sworn police officer in Evansville, Indiana, earned his PhD in Public Administration at Virginia Tech in 1984, where his PhD dissertation dealt with response modalities for international terrorism using boundary spanning, networking and “informal” organizations.  He has served as the monitor in three police jurisdictions since the late 1990s:  Pittsburgh; New Jersey State Police; and Albuquerque, NM.   Dr. Ginger also wrote the monitoring methodology for the Los Angeles Police Department monitoring process in 2010.  

Dr. Ginger has supervised numerous nation-wide training and organizational development programs for local law enforcement during his tenure as Deputy Director of the DC-based Police Foundation.  He also served as a sworn police officer in Evansville Indiana, and as Director of the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. 

Zoom Meeting Information 

Topic: LWVCNM Monthly Meeting Dr. James Ginger 

Time: Jul 8, 2021 12:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada) 

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