December 5th Morning Rush: Bernalillo County DA plans cutting-edge program to target criminals

1. The Bernalillo County District Attorney wants to build a cutting-edge program that he thinks could be a game-changing way to target criminals in Albuquerque. It’s called a “Crime Strategies Unit,” which DA Raul Torrez is modeling after a similar program in San Francisco. The idea is to use dedicated crime analysts and computer programming to track any crime coming into the system and also to map connections to other cases. With that Torrez says prosecutors can beef up cases