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The New Mexico legislature has made great strides in criminal justice reform and civil rights this session. One area of reform was the elimination of all court, conviction and bench warrant fees in the criminal courts. This new law refers to the fees being charged of...
Technology continues to march forward. Cameras are everywhere – security cameras, doorbell cams and cellphones mean that cameras are almost always available when something of interest happens. When it comes to police violence, just having that footage has been a...
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is explicit that it’s illegal to discriminate in any aspect of employment because of an employee or job applicant’s religion. When religious employees need reasonable accommodations in order to do the work, employers must...
In 2014, the United States Department of Justice and the Albuquerque Police Department entered into a consent decree. The Justice Department had found "reasonable cause to believe that APD engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly...
The Department of Homeland Security was created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in part to gather intelligence about plots to commit further terrorism on U.S. soil. States like New Mexico similarly created their own versions of DHS. However, the original mission...
According to MappingPoliceViolence.org, New Mexico stands only behind Wyoming in the rate of police killings per capita. The nonprofit project says that police in New Mexico killed 32 people last year. The projects record all instances where an on- or off-duty police...
2022 was a record-breaking year for the Albuquerque Police Department in terms of police shootings. There were 18. Ten people were killed and three were injured. That is extremely disheartening, since the APD has been under the supervision of the U.S. Department of...
In 2020, New Mexico passed laws requiring all state and local law enforcement officers, except tribal officers, to wear body cameras. One of the main purposes of the law was to make a record when officers use force so that any wrongful use of force can be addressed....
Civil rights activist Malcolm X was murdered on Feb. 21, 1965. He was shot as people gathered to hear him speak in upper Manhattan. The government convicted three men in the murder, but two of them were exonerated in 2021. A review of the evidence uncovered the fact...
There are actually only a limited number of reasons police officers can search your car when they have pulled you over: You consented to the search The officers have a valid search warrant The officers reasonably believe searching your car is necessary for their own...