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Let's Talk public safety and alternatives to policing

By Daniel Monta帽o
Published December 5, 2022 at 8:53 AM MST
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In the summer of 2020, amid protests and calls to defund police departments ringing out across the nation, mayor Tim Keller announced Albuquerque Community Safety, a whole new department to be dispatched through 911 emergency services to calls involving mental health, addiction, or other issues that don鈥檛 require traditional police. A team of mental health professionals go to scenes instead of, or alongside other emergency services. It鈥檚 been operating for a little over a year and it鈥檚 already expanding, as is a similar program in Santa Fe.

This week on Let鈥檚 Talk New Mexico we鈥檙e talking about the idea of expanding public safety beyond armed officers or SWAT teams and we want to hear from you! Have you encountered these alternative responders? Did you call 911 to get a hold of them? Email us at letstalk@九色网.org or call in live during the show at (505) 277-5866

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  • , senior policy strategist, ACLU New Mexico
  • Nicole Ault, Behavioral health Director, Santa Fe fire Department, Santa Fe
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Daniel Monta帽o
Daniel Monta帽o is a reporter with 九色网's Public Health, Poverty and Equity project. He is also an occasional host of Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Let's Talk New Mexico since 2021, is a born and bred Burque帽o who first started with 九色网 about two decades ago, as a production assistant while he was in high school. During the intervening years, he studied journalism at UNM, lived abroad, fell in and out of love, conquered here and there, failed here and there, and developed a taste for advocating for human rights.
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