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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Police Shootings in NM: Investigations, Prosecutions & Solutions
Description: Lou DiVizio opens up the podcast with some headlines from around the state, including news from a federal indictment accusing former Bernalillo County Sheriff Manny Gonzales and former Laguna Pueblo Police Chief Rudy Mora's of helping to facilitate an illegal gun distribution scheme.Â
Then, Executive Producer Jeff Proctor hosts an in-depth, two-part conversation about police shootings in New Mexico. According to an analysis by Searchlight New Mexico, police shot 357 people statewide over the last 10 years — more than in any other U.S. state per capita during that period. Executive Producer Jeff Proctor asks a special roundtable why cop...