NM Legislators Listen to Victims, Law Enforcement About Violent Juvenile Crime

NM legislators listen to victims, law enforcement about violent juvenile crime

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- A group of New Mexico Republican legislators were in Las Cruces to listen to victims and to law enforcement about what many in the state are calling a growing and frustrating problem -- violent juvenile crime. "We are here to listen to victims and families who have had their lives [...]

New Mexico lawmakers, law enforcement to discuss escalating juvenile crime

New Mexico republican legislators are hosting a public legislative taskforce focused on juvenile crime and the public is invited to share input and listen to the discussion. Las Cruces Police Chief Jeremy Story says juvenile crime expands from misdemeanors, burglary to homicide and first-degree murder. "It's shattered lives to shattered countless families on both ends of that incident," said Chief Story. "And that's just one, one tragedy we had.…