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Lawmakers are hopeful that 2019 brings an opportunity to significantly overhaul major parts of the New Mexico criminal justice system after what one key state senator called a ‘lost decade’ that saw myriad ideas but scant action. Continue Reading
How would Pearce or Lujan Grisham address the raft of deficiencies — some new, others decades old — in the state’s criminal justice system beyond rising crime rates? Continue Reading
Despite continuous underfunding, a new academy is training cadets to protect the Nation on its own terms. Continue Reading
The violence didn’t shock me; the inaction in the face of it did. Continue Reading
Inadequate human intelligence, poor communication and unheeded warnings contributed to the deadly debacle a year ago. Continue Reading
New Mexico could have taken a stand against the private prison industry’s profiting off the detention of immigrants. Instead, we chose jobs. Continue Reading
State lawmakers are exploring what, if any, authority the state might exert to learn more about the conditions in immigrant detention facilities in Otero and Cibola counties — and if they have jurisdiction to require changes. Continue Reading
Tribal members positioned to help Border Patrol are getting run down by its agents. Continue Reading
Enrique ‘Kiki’ Vigil says his biggest mistake has been “misjudgments” in appointments to key jobs but he’s confident in his new undersheriff and says he’s broken up cliques that resisted change. Continue Reading
A debate over how so many black people came to be arrested in a 2016 sting operation in Albuquerque is playing out in the city’s federal courthouse. Continue Reading
APD’s involvement appears to have led, in part, to one of the more controversial aspects of the ATF sting operation: the arrest of black people at a rate highly disproportionate to their population in the city. Continue Reading
The email offers a window both into the lead agent’s thought process and what defense lawyers made of the correspondence and how it fits into allegations about the ATF’s conduct during the operation. Continue Reading
Some defendants are trying to prove that ATF racially profiled them in a massive undercover operation. Continue Reading
New Mexico legislators rolled five different crime bills into one, calling it a bipartisan attempt to make communities and prisons safer. Continue Reading
The bill would have extended greater legal immunity to officers accused of wrongdoing. Continue Reading