Posts Tagged ‘Santa Fe’
The Line: Judge Rules Santa Fe Must Use Ranked-Choice Voting
December 1, 2017 – Ranked-choice voting, also called “instant runoff” voting, was overwhelmingly approved by citizens of Santa Fe in 2008, but has yet to be instituted. But now that the proper technology has been acquired, a judge has ruled that it must be used for the March 2018 elections. That leaves the city just…
Read MoreThe Line: How Police Officers Handle People Experiencing Mental Illness
November 17, 2017 – The Santa Fe New Mexican reported this week on the response by a crisis negotiation team in the police department to a call with a man in crisis who was schizophrenic. Anthony Benavidez was shot and killed by police officers after barricading himself inside his apartment. The response by police is raising…
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