district attorney brandenburg cleared the two officers who killed christopher torres.s she has cleared every police shooting in the city during her last 13 years in office. her explanation, in a news conference, she can only believe what the police tell her. >> do i understand this right, nobody from this department actually went out and talked to these two officers? you relied on the statements these officers wrote up after the incident? >> we have to really lly on pol reports. we're not an investigative agency. >> gordon eden is albuquerque's new police chief. his job is to change the culture here. that came into question just days after he joined the force and sided with the officers in the james boyd shooting. >> i spoke prematurely. and i shouldn't have. there has not been a single prosecution of a police officer. from what i understand, there is not any discipline. >> i can't speak at all to what has happened in the past. but i can assure you that through the changes that we've made in our internal affairs process, we're holding people to a higher degree of accou

boyd's is not the only questionable killing here. 27-year-old christopher torres, a schizophrenic whod killed in his pajamas in his own backyard when two plainclothes police officers hopped this fence to serve a road rage warrant on him. officers claimed haddy was armed and shot him in the back. >> they encountered christopher in a side yard. at most he's holding a broom. >> a broom. >> he had a broomstick. but he laid the broomstick down. and had no weapons. was backing up from the officers when they attacked him. >> reporter: steven and renata torres sued the police department on behalf of their son and won. a judge awarded them a $6 million civil judgment. what happened to the two officers that killed your son? >> they got, what, three, four days paid vacation. >> reporter: are they still on the force? >> yes. >> oh, yes. >> reporter: despite $30 million in judgments against the city and an officer-involved shooting rate twois that of chicago, eight times that of new york, not a single albuquerque police officer has even been charged let alone convicted of using excessive force in

and the city of albuquerque new mexico must pay six million dollars for the wrongful death of christopher torres who suffered from schizophrenia when he was killed by police in two thousand and eleven torres was shot in the back by albuquerque p.d. while they were serving arrest warrant state district judge shannon bacon rejected the claims that the officers were acting in self-defense and saying instead that they escalated the situation by not making an adequate in paree into the facts behind the warrant to talk about the controversy surrounding the albuquerque police department i was joined earlier by civil rights attorney shannon kennedy i first asked her if she believed that the judge's decision in the tourist case was fair. absolutely judge. heard over a week's worth of testimony and found that the shooting officer in that case was not credible. and there have been actually from what i read thirty seven police shootings in albuquerque in just the past four years and twenty three of which were actually fatal obviously the police have to protect themselves and we're aware of that but with the

district court judge found police were not acting in self-defense and they punched and shot christopher torresin his backyard. torres, who had schizophrenia, was being served with an arrest warrant for a pervaded assault, but the court said police failed to present the warrant, sparking a confrontation that led to torres being shot dead. a recent justice department report found a pattern of excessive force in some 25 killings by albuquerque police since 2010. the albuquerque police have also released new video from the scene of their fatal shooting of james boyd, a homeless man with schizophrenia who was camping when police approached him in march. earlier police footage showed boyd apparently agreeing to surrender and turning away to pick up his belongings before officers fire a flashbang grenade, release a dog on him, and open fire. in footage that was released on wednesday, boyd can be heard saying he is afraid to descend from his campsite because officers why should him. one reassures him they won't. the police say they were unable to recover any footage from officer keith sandy, the offic