“I'm not coming here trying to play Monday quarterback myself, but I will tell you, (bail reform is) what's handcuffing our police department,” Pili said, referring to the overwhelming passage of the 2016 state constitutional amendment granting pretrial release to defendants who are not considered a threat but remain jailed because they cannot afford to post bail.ĭuring a public safety town hall last week, Las Cruces Police Chief Miguel Dominguez said bail reform prevented his department from keeping repeat offenders behind bars.
We're going to have to reverse what was done and move forward.” “When that time comes, and it goes to Santa Fe, we need everyone letting these legislators know what you guys did several years ago … was not right,” the mayor said. LAS CRUCES - Mayor Ken Miyagishima and City Manager Ifo Pili became the latest city leaders to criticize bail reform in response to some business community members’ and residents’ concerns about crime and unhoused people.ĭuring a Las Cruces City Council meeting June 6, the mayor encouraged attendees to gather support ahead of the next legislative session and take their grievances directly to the Roundhouse and demand change on a state level. Miyagishima said he planned to take this argument to Santa Fe in the coming legislative session. At a meeting on June 6, 2022, both men said that bail reform hampered police officers' ability to keep people in jail. City of Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima, left, and City Manager Ifo Pili spoke about the 2016 Bail Reform Act that did away with cash bonds in New Mexico.
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