$4,000 charged daily for Albuquerque police monitoring

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The first Department of Justice invoice for monitoring the Albuquerque Police Department shows James Ginger cost $4,000 per day for the first three months of his services.

KOB-TV reports (https://bit.ly/1FlNYCd) Ginger issued the bill without having made any public appearances or briefings about what he’s doing to monitor the police department.

This bill covers three months of work totaling almost $366,000 that the invoice lists as going toward planning, coordinating, traveling and designing methodology.

The DOJ started monitoring the department as part of an agreement reached after Albuquerque Police drew scrutiny over more than 40 shootings involving its officers since 2010.

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Information from: KOB-TV, https://www.kob.com