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UPS

But is there a time allowance?

Police recruit FedEx, UPS drivers to help fight crime

According to an email obtained under the Inspection of Public Records Act, the Santa Fe Police Department is asking UPS and FedEx drivers to be more vigilant on their routes and report crime under a new and apparently secret program called the Vigilant Eye Project.

The department has created “mini emergency cards with non-emergency numbers for each driver to keep in their ID pouches,” police Chief Eric Garcia wrote in the Oct. 8 email to Mayor Javier Gonzales and City Manager Brian Snyder.

“These cards will also be distributed to our sister city agency drivers that are on the road every day and just can’t remember the non-emergency numbers,” Garcia wrote.

The chief initiated the project after he started in June, the email states.

In early October, he met with the new area manager for FedEx “to step it up a notch.”

The new manager supports the project, too, the email states.

“However, he wants to keep the collaboration out of the news so his trucks won’t be targeted for any kind of vandalism if the public learns the drivers are collaborating with SFPD,” the email states.

The New Mexican

Action, Corporate Greed, Political

Thom Says It All

If ever you aren’t sure why elections matter, just take a look at our court system. Earlier this week, three judges – all appointed by Democrats – stood up for voting rights in North Carolina. Only days earlier, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court issued a stay to slash early voting in Ohio.
The three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reviewed North Carolina’s new voting laws, and put a stop to two of the provisions that would have disenfranchised many voters in the upcoming election. While the democratic appointees declared “the right to vote is fundamental,” the right-wing justices on the Supreme Court allowed Ohio’s restrictive voting laws to stay in effect this November.
To make matters worse, our nation’s highest court didn’t even hear arguments in the Ohio case, or provide any justification for their ruling. The distinction is clear. Judges appointed by Democrats understand that voting is a fundamental right in our nation. Judges who were appointed by Republicans see no problem with limiting our ability to participate in the democratic process.
Elections matter for many reasons, but the effect they have on our judicial system may be the most important reason why we have to get out and vote this November.
-Thom