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Public safety is a pertinent issue for many New Mexicans and we now know the leaders going to the Roundhouse to try and enact change.

We see politicians fund raising. we see it on twitter, cnn, fox, everywhere. what we don't see though is what we can agree on. even if it's background checks or funding for violence intervention programs, we need to find the one thing we can agree on because i can respect the fact people have different opinions that i have, but i can't respect the fact that we aren't doing anything about e. the reality is there's the equivalent of several parklands happening every day. >> working hard to keep this issue in the national spotlight. thank you for your work and thank you for coming on. >> thank yo...

Help that they need, and that begins with what we are seeing so far in the new york city blueprint that mayor adams put out yesterday, and what he's going to do is put more funds into the hospital-based violence intervention programs, which is great, we need more of that, we need more mental health counselors, therapists, psychiatrists and health department and schools, in the jails. but also make sure we keep the criminals off the street, not just a slap on the wrist. we have to make sure they are put behind bars so they don't hurt others and also make sure they get the help they need, the co...

Disease or severe depression. so it is so important to tackle these issues. it is not the gun that kills people. it is the person behind the gun pulling the trigger. so we really need to look at the bottom line and figure out why it says crime happening? figuring out ways to improve. i do like the fact here in new york city, they would have more funding allocated to mental health resources, access and availability. we will see more hospital-based violence intervention programs, which is fantastic. but we also need to make sure we have improved reform when it comes to criminals and the punishme...

A local civil rights activist is accused of trying to assassinate the democratic candidate for mayor in louisville, kentucky. investigators say 21-year-old quintez brown walked into craig greenberg's campaign head headquarters on monday and opened fire. thankfully no one was hurt, but greenberg says a bullet grazed him so closely that it ripped his shirt and his sweater. >> if too much senseless gun violence in louisville and across the country, and i hope that incidents like this can bring people together as opposed to divide us further apart. bring us together to work on violence interventio...