Opinion: Bail Reform Is Not The Problem By Christine Steele - NewsBreak

During the past several Alamogordo City Commission meetings, Mayor Susan Payne has repeated that bail reform was the worst thing to ever happen to this state. As someone who has been a journalist for 16 years in six different states and covered crime in three of them: New Mexico, Ohio, and Arizona, I can tell you: Bail reform is not the problem. New Mexico is the problem.