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For the first 21 days of the lat­est State of Emer­gency (SoE), TTPS pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer ASP Owie Rus­sell has re­port­ed a sig­nif­i­cant de­cline in al­most every cat­e­go­ry of crime com­pared to the same pe­ri­od dur­ing the pre­vi­ous SoE.

The lat­est SoE was de­clared on March 3 fol­low­ing a spike in mur­ders and oth­er vi­o­lent crime. It is the third such mea­sure in as many years, fol­low­ing a sim­i­lar re­sponse by the then PNM-led ad­min­is­tra­tion on De­cem­ber 30, 2024, to quell gang war­fare, and an­oth­er on Ju­ly 18, 2025, in re­sponse to a pur­port­ed plot by crim­i­nals to tar­get law en­force­ment and gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.

As of Wednes­day morn­ing, there have been 81 mur­ders for the year so far, com­pared to 94 for the same pe­ri­od last year.