25 June, 2024, El Paso, TX, George Allsopp – Debt is never a good thing. When cops are in debt, it’s even worse for all concerned—citizens and police departments.

Within the El Paso Police Department, we will provide three instances of officers who, due to their financial struggles, personal greed, or societal pressures, have brought disrepute to our department. It’s crucial that we take immediate action and implement preventive measures to avoid such incidents in the future.

Ruben Morales,25, had only been employed for two years at the time of his arrest.

Morales, while on duty as a responding officer to a hit-and-run, made a decision that would lead to his downfall. He chose to take money from the glovebox of the car involved in the incident, a decision that was promptly reported by the car’s owner.

Police announced that they started Morales’ termination process and reaffirmed their commitment to upholding the highest standards of integrity and accountability within their ranks. They added that any actions inconsistent with these standards will be investigated.

Yes, Morales lost his job, according to what the El Paso Police Department says. Termination for theft is not equally applied by any means.

Let’s address how the El Paso Police Department does not uphold the highest standards of integrity and accountability.

On October 16, 2019, Ron Martin, the former president of the El Paso Municipal Police Officer’s Association, was arrested and charged with misappropriation of funds.

Martin robbed the Association and his fellow officers of anywhere between $2,500 – $30,000. What he used the money for is anyone’s guess. Maybe home improvement, alcohol, or strip clubs. We’ll never know because the department frowns on integrity and accountability.

Martin was arrested, booked, and removed from active duty while his case was moving through the Judicial system. However, in the case of Martin, stealing from the Association and your fellow cops is not the sort of offense that leads to termination.

Martin promised the department that he would return the funds and drop all charges. Why was Morales not afforded this option? Favratisim and the good ‘ol boy network.

Was Martin’s second chance a one-off event? No.

Our local drunk cop, Sergeant John Chavez, who will face punishment for two DWIs, fingers crossed, also decided to get work done on his home.

As an aside, the El Paso Police Department, in addition to the ignored values of integrity and accountability, has also said, via a PIO who has his problems, that they value transparency. Which is why there have been zero press releases about John Chavez.

John Chavez, who should also be fired, was arrested for Theft of Service over $2,500 and under $30,000.

Was John Chavez removed from the department because of their commitment to upholding the highest standards of integrity and accountability within their ranks. Nope.

Like Martin, Chavez was given a second chance after promising to pay back the money like a good little thief so that the charges would be dropped.

Again, Morales was never afforded such an opportunity.

Chavez has other problems. We are told that Chavez suffers from Little Man syndrome and has been moved about due to sexual harassment.

“I will never work with or near Chavez again,” says one female officer on shift with Chavez. “His parents didn’t teach him how to respect women. We are not his toys.”

Let’s look at one officer who, while not outright committing crimes for money, is breaking department policy: Frank Rodriguez.

“It’s brag, brag, brag, bitch, bitch, bitch since Rodriguez came here,” says one officer. “I don’t care for your finical advice or even what you pay on tax for your over priced house, I’m sick of this man.”

Steven Zimmerman, another reporter at the Jerusalem Press, has written about Rodriguez rather often and with good cause.

Click here to read what I shall be referencing.

Outside employment is limited to twenty-five hours a week. Rodriguez frequently passes that mark, and the department seems not to care. Still, the department would have you believe it is committed to upholding the highest standards of integrity and accountability within its ranks.

Rodriguez works overtime on TxDot assignments, which are not mandatory overtime hours. Why do the police not apply to Rodriguez? Could the rumors of an assignation between him and Julia Inciriaga be true?

“I will tell you this much, as long as you don’t use my name,” said an officer with the El Paso Police Department. “There’s something between Inciriaga and Rodriguez, and it’s something you should not do if married.”

It’s hard to define who is on what side of that thin blue line we often hear of. Far too many officers, correction, and far too many self-serving bureaucrats in uniform seek only to line their pockets or bide their time until retirement.

EPPD ethics say to reward the wicked members of the constabulary while punishing the ones who do good work: spending untold amounts of your tax dollars investigating an officer for his wife’s actions, suspending officers for not logging a drugs pipe—not really a suspendable offense in the UK, but here it is.

I could go on: An officer was involved in a hit-and-run that other officers covered up, and then the courts found all the officers not guilty. The head of the department did not know how to patrol the streets or write a citation for running a red light.

Maddening, all of it.

The bureaucrats in uniform, sat in their cushy chairs at headquarters, are to blame for what the department has become. Do you know who else is to blame? The citizenry of El Paso.

I have never seen a city, town, or village who are so comfortable with so many evil men and women in badges. Anywhere else, there would be cries of “off with their heads,” but not here.

Here, in El Paso, you’re okay with a member of the constabulary shooting an unarmed, handcuffed man in the head. You’re OK with a man being murdered by another member of the constabulary at a car wash for simply saying he had a gun. When the video was posted to YouTube, the comments on the latter were disgusting, and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

We must take to the streets, the voting booth, and City Hall and demand change before you, me, or our children are robbed or murdered by the arse end of the pig that is the El Paso Police Department.

(Before you say I am anti-law enforcement, you can bugger right off. I’m anti-bad copper).