Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
On this date ...
1974: New Mexico State Police statistics showed violent crime was rising rapidly across the state.
Reports of murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery went up 81 percent from 1969 to 1973.
One of the major crimes occurred every 18 minutes in 1969; that frequency shortened to one every 10 minutes in 1973.
Wrote Clovis News-Journal Managing Editor Bill Southard: “For those people who think New Mexico isn’t a progressive state, we have evidence to the contrary.”
The crime index, he wrote, “indicates that we’re catching up fast.”
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