The first solution is being proposed by the Bipartisan policy center, Mayor Richard Berry and two legislators in New Mexico leading the solution towards the public safety who are advocating to call for tougher three strikes law in New Mexico in the 2016 legislative session which will allow the police officers of New Mexico to put the repeat offenders behind bars for committing serious crimes. This is the solution that I am advocating for it. Recently, there has been a lot of crime that have taken place in New Mexico City, which led the government of New Mexico to take action on those violent crimes. The Albuquerque Journal brings out that, according to the recently released FBI uniform Crime Report, “approximately 4,934 violent crimes have
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In the article, Berry mentions that “city and local law enforcement leaders need to work with lawmakers and corrections officials to address factors that may be contributing to crime statewide, such as a bail bond system that some have described as broken” (Hudetz). If the three strikes law becomes tougher in New Mexico, than it means about 4,934 violent crime rates will at least go down even though it won’t completely disappear the crime rate in New Mexico, but it will still have some effect on it. This is the solution that has already been implemented in some of the other states; however, it has not been implemented in New Mexico City. A state that has, already implemented this solution is California. According to the California Innocence Project argues that the “Three Strikes Law” in the state study has shown that implementation of the law has meant “a tremendous increase in the size of California’s prison population;” furthermore, many proponents of the three strikes declare that the law itself is one of the reasons for the decrease in violent crimes in California (Figure 4). However, the California innocence project claims that “California’s crime rate has decreased at a similar rate as many states across the country, including states that do not have Three Strikes laws” (California Innocence …show more content…
Online court records show that Lymon also faced aggravated battery and kidnapping charges last year, but those cases were dismissed” by the court of New Mexico City (Press). Depending on the old three strikes law in New Mexico, Susana Martinez, governor of New Mexico, remarks that the three strikes law is ineffectual, resisting that it is so precise that no prisoners are serving a punishment under it, as she mentions that she wants to examine “how repeat offender leave the state’s criminal justice system quickly and commit more crimes,” (Hudetz and Contreras) crimes like police officer shooting. Moreover, after seeing this incident, finally a new three strikes law in New Mexico decided to take action on repeat offenders especially criminals like Davon Lymon, who was charged by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), who filed a criminal complaint against him with a violation of the federal firearms law. The Albuquerque division brings out that, according to the FBI Federal Bureau of investigation study on “Davon
In the article, Berry mentions that “city and local law enforcement leaders need to work with lawmakers and corrections officials to address factors that may be contributing to crime statewide, such as a bail bond system that some have described as broken” (Hudetz). If the three strikes law becomes tougher in New Mexico, than it means about 4,934 violent crime rates will at least go down even though it won’t completely disappear the crime rate in New Mexico, but it will still have some effect on it. This is the solution that has already been implemented in some of the other states; however, it has not been implemented in New Mexico City. A state that has, already implemented this solution is California. According to the California Innocence Project argues that the “Three Strikes Law” in the state study has shown that implementation of the law has meant “a tremendous increase in the size of California’s prison population;” furthermore, many proponents of the three strikes declare that the law itself is one of the reasons for the decrease in violent crimes in California (Figure 4). However, the California innocence project claims that “California’s crime rate has decreased at a similar rate as many states across the country, including states that do not have Three Strikes laws” (California Innocence …show more content…
Online court records show that Lymon also faced aggravated battery and kidnapping charges last year, but those cases were dismissed” by the court of New Mexico City (Press). Depending on the old three strikes law in New Mexico, Susana Martinez, governor of New Mexico, remarks that the three strikes law is ineffectual, resisting that it is so precise that no prisoners are serving a punishment under it, as she mentions that she wants to examine “how repeat offender leave the state’s criminal justice system quickly and commit more crimes,” (Hudetz and Contreras) crimes like police officer shooting. Moreover, after seeing this incident, finally a new three strikes law in New Mexico decided to take action on repeat offenders especially criminals like Davon Lymon, who was charged by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), who filed a criminal complaint against him with a violation of the federal firearms law. The Albuquerque division brings out that, according to the FBI Federal Bureau of investigation study on “Davon