National Guard deployments cost state over $22M with no ‘clear’ impact on crime, legislative committee says – Matthew Reisen, Albuquerque Journal
Despite the state spending more than $22 million to deploy hundreds of New Mexico National Guard members into the Española area and parts of Albuquerque as part of a public safety emergency, a recent analysis found the operations had not shown “clear impacts on crime.”
A June 16 Legislative Finance Committee report found that “crime metrics have not changed much” in Albuquerque, while in Rio Arriba County crime rates have not been reported to back up any meaningful impacts of the deployment…