Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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In the summer of 2019, 50 New Mexico State Police officers were deployed to patrol certain neighborhoods in Albuquerque, making more than 700 arrests in two months. The “surge operation” was criticized early on after officers shot at suspects in vehicles in back-to-back incidents — a practice Albuquerque Police Department officers are prohibited from doing except in very specific circumstances. Leon Howard, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, said that if a proposed police reform bill...
Twenty years ago, when protests erupted over the contested election between George Bush and Al Gore, Pat Davis was a rookie officer with the United States Capitol Police Department. He remembers freezing on the cold streets as disgruntled voters from both sides poured into Washington, D.C., for rallies and marches. Needless to say, the scene on Wednesday as mobs stormed the Capitol was very different. “(Back then) we didn’t have the president of the United States encouraging people to fight, and take over and move for...
