Dan Houston is Bernalillo County sheriff.  I’m going to contact him to ask what the Bern Co Sheriff’s Office criteria are for considering crashes ‘intentional.’ Contact info is here for Dan sheriff@bernco.gov:  http://www.bernalillocountysheriff.com/

Wow, BernCo also has a bicycle unit!

Dan just lost the R primary for re-election as County Sheriff, in part probably because he appears to be quite the sexist!  http://www.afscme18.org/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=60709758-8ba4-4d8a-acb8-8791b3bde0d3

Diane

From: Bike-racers [mailto:bike-racers-bounces@mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of dave via Bike-racers
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 1:02 PM
To: bike-racers@mailman.swcp.com
Subject: Re: [NMCycling] Fwd: Fwd: Look for this vehicle!

This is really disturbing:

"At this point, investigators aren't considering the crash intentional. Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputies said it's more likely the driver was speeding and lost control."

When a witness says the driver was verbally harassing this and another cyclist before swerving into and striking the cyclist, how can the Sheriff's department conclude that it was not intentional?  If they ever catch this slime, their premature and baseless conclusion forms the rationale for a slap on the wrist for inadequate attention or some other trifling infraction.  This exposes the way it seems our law enforcement views all car-cyclist interactions: either as the cyclists fault or as an unfortunate mishap, nothing more.