New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department says a new juvenile detention center in southern New Mexico will be called the Lincoln Pines Youth Center. The facility is near Fort Stanton and is scheduled to open in October to house two dozen medium risk juvenile offenders. The center is at the location of the former […]
Archives for July 2013
Keeping Highways safe from trucking accidents
The Las Cruces Sun News recently ran an article on all the work the New Mexico Motor Transportation Police do to keep trucks safe on the highway and reduce the number of trucking accidents. Trucking accidents are a complex problem and have many causes that the state authorities try to combat through policing. To prevent […]
Adequate store security
All businesses should be concerned about the safety of its customers and employees. On July 21 in Albuquerque a clerk was killed during a robbery at a jewelry exchange business. The robbery took less than just a few minutes, and in it a man lost his life. Fortunately this store had a camera that captured […]
DWI / DUI breath testing and mouth alcohol
Mouth alcohol can cause a breathalyzer machine to register a falsely high blood alcohol concentration. The breathalyzer machine (in Dona Ana county the Intoxlizer-8000 is the breathalyzer used) assumes that the breath sample is being taken from deep lung air. Science has developed a formula that allows one to convert deep lung air into a […]
Police officers shooting pets
It seems every week there is a new story on police officers shooting someone’s dog. On July 15 the Dona Ana County Sheriffs office shot and killed the dog of someone who had been the victim of a crime. The Las Cruces Sun News reported: “When sheriff’s deputies went into Hernandez’s [the victim’s] house, they […]
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