Arnold Tool News Today

OPINION: The politicians in Santa Fe think that they know better than the police, so they continually ignore them.

The Arnold Tool, or the public safety assessment, is designed to weigh the risk any given defendant would re-offend.

After a prosecutor files a motion to detain a defendant in a criminal case the tool assigns a recommended level of monitoring under pretrial services.

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Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman said the old system that utilized the Arnold Tool will not be as significant moving forward.

Albuquerque police said they believe the man who admitted to causing a violent crash with a stolen car Tuesday was high on meth at the time. 

According to Bregman's office, in February when the tool recommended a person be released, a judge disagreed and chose detention 60% of the time. That's the highest rate since 2020.

OPINION: Day after day, we all continue to read about and see news stories of our crime problem, all while the N.M. Supreme Court refuses to solve the problem.

Another Albuquerque family is only starting to cope with the loss of not one, but two of their teenage boys.

By Phaedra Haywood, The Santa Fe New Mexican The Legislature’s debate over crime is beginning to take form, centering on two key issues: whether suspects accused of serious offenses  should be detained in jail as a matter of course, and whether a risk assessment process known as the Arnold Tool is a threat to public […]