Daily Lobo new mexico
The Independent Student Voice of UNM since 1895
monday October 6, 2014 | Volume 119 | Issue 36
University’s Clery Report shows new metrics By Sayyed Shah Three new categories for UNM’s annual Security and Fire Safety Report, also known as the Clery Report, show that the University has some problems with relationship violence. Lt. Tim Stump of the UNM Police Department said the three new sections of this report, released Oct. 1, include data on dating violence, domestic violence and stalking, and were added based on recommendations made by the Violence Against Women Act of 2013. According to the Report, the number of sexual assaults increased from four reported in 2012 to 11 in 2013. Additionally, Stump said UNMPD had six reported sexual assaults between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 of this year. Seven of UNM’s 11 dating violence instances occurred on campus: three in residential facilities, and four on University property. Fifteen incidents of domestic violence were reported, as well: 13 on campus property, and two on non-campus property in the area. There were also four stalking incidents reported, all of which were on campus property. Stump said that before last year the University did not have systems in place to specifically respond to sexual assaults and related incidents, and that the
higher number of reported sexual assaults could be due to the improved reporting process. “This (increase) may be attributed to the initiatives in place. Things that differ are the University formed a Sexual Assault Response Team in 2013. This provided many resources for victims of sexual assault to come forward and report the incident. It is now called the Sexual Misconduct & Assault Response Team,” Stump said. The reports added that burglaries decreased from 38 to 26 between 2012 and 2013. Stump said this was because UNMPD has prioritized theft as a major concern. “In 2013 we added four more officers and increased our foot patrol efforts that helped reduce burglaries,” he said. The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is the federal law also known as the Campus Security Act. The Clery Act requires all colleges and universities across the U.S. participating in federal financial aid programs to disclose information about crimes on campus and on public property immediately adjacent to the campus. The Clery Act is named after 19-year-old Jeanne Clery, who was raped and killed in her Lehigh University dorm room in 1986. In mid-August, a UNM Internal Auditor’s report — the
Preliminary Assessment of Clery Act Compliance Report — had found that the University was not substantially compliant with the Clery Act and had warned that the University could face heavy fines due to the non-compliance. The report warned that the University is not collecting enough of the right data, and may be overreporting in areas such as student discipline referrals. However, UNM has taken steps toward fixing these problems, such as creating a new Clery coordinator position and the inclusion of better education and awareness for students about crime on campus. “Early on the Clery Act was primarily focused on crime statistics, and so it pretty much fell on the police department’s shoulders to ensure those crime statistics were reported annually,” Deputy UNM Police Chief Christine Chester, interim Clery coordinator, said in an article published in the Daily Lobo on Sept. 2. “With the new amendments it just became an overwhelming task to do on its own. For Clery compliance, it’s got to be a collaborative, University-wide effort.” Sayyed Shah is the assistant news editor at the Daily Lobo. He can be contacted at assistantnews@dailylobo.com or on Twitter @mianfawadshah.
Murder/non-negligent manslaughter Negligent manslaughter
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Robbery
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Aggravated assault
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Motor vehicle theft
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Arson
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Hate crimes
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Burglary Dating violence Domestic violence
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Stalking
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Sexual assault
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Liquor law arrests
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Drug arrests Illegal weapons possession
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By Sayyed Shah
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New Mexico basketball head coach Craig Neal reviews game notes during the game against San Diego State last season. The upcoming Lobo season will see nine new recruits along with a new assistant coach, strength coach, video coordinator and director of basketball operations.
Gearing up for new season A lot of new faces stepped onto the Rudy Davalos Center court on Friday afternoon. Nine, to be exact. “I’m real excited. Fired up to start,” second-year UNM head
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coach Craig Neal said. “I’m going to miss the guys that graduated for sure. We’ve got a good group of guys here — a lot of talent, on paper, but they have to show that on the floor.” Along with the nine new recruits, the Lobos also have a new
strength coach, assistant coach, video coordinator and director of basketball operations. Neal said freshman Adam Cumber will redshirt, but he won’t redshirt any other players unless circumstances call for it.
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An online news outlet is developing a searchable, interactive database of audio, video and other records associated with fatal police shootings in Albuquerque. Journalists at the New Mexico Compass, in partnership with KUNM, have gathered as many materials as they could find, and have organized an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to build a searchable, free-to-thepublic database on their website. “This project is a big one and will be unfolding for quite some time,” said Marisa Demarco, editor-inchief at the New Mexico Compass. “The plan is to build a database with the material we received and invite other media and people to contribute their own primarysource recordings or documents.” Demarco, who is also a UNM alumna, would like to launch the database by the beginning of next year, though it would continue to evolve as people contribute stories and records, she said. They are also asking for donations from the public to help pay for expenses. “We’ve done a lot of preliminary interviews and are working up stories. We’ve launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund the building of the database,” she said. According to a Department of Justice report released in April, Albuquerque police officers have often used excessive force in an unjustified manner. “We reviewed a random sam-
ple of the department’s use-offorce reports completed by officers and supervisors between 2009 and early 2013. Our sample consisted of over 200 force reports,” the report said. “We find that officers frequently misused electronic control weapons, commonly referred to by the brand name ‘Tasers.’” New Mexico Compass members said that police and city officials had been evasive and have at times outright refused to provide information requested by city councilors, policymakers, journalists and Albuquerque residents — including the families of those fatally shot by police officers. “It occurred to me that if we pooled all of our records and made them publicly available, we could start to create a complete picture of these shootings, really begin the work of telling this story, and not just in a reactive, chase-the-news-event sort of way,” Demarco said. In April she made a request for all of the audio and video associated with fatal police shootings since 2010, she said. “In May the records custodian said the A/V was ready for pickup, but each DVD and cassette cost $20, so the total would be more than $1,160,” Demarco said. She scrounged up the cash from media partners — KUNM pitched in, and so did Citizen Media Group — and she went to the office to pay, she said. “They handed me my records and took my money, but the re-
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