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EVERY COUNT? IN TARGET 7’S SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS TO ALBUQUERQUE’S CRIME PROBLEMS, WE FOUND ONE STATE THAT DID JUST THAT. ROYALE: SARAH BEASLEY DOESN’T KNOW HER HUSBAND ANY MORE. >> HE’S STILL PHYSICALLY HERE. MY HUSBAND DIED THAT NIGHT. THAT’S A TERRIBLE THING TO SA SHELLY: POLICE -- JIMMIE SUFFERED A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY WHEN HIS HEAD HIT THE SIDE OF HIS PICKUP. >> THE LAST TWO YEARS, YOU LOOK IN HIS EYES AND YOU SEE NOTHING, FEAR AND NOT MUCH MORE. I MISS MY HUSBAND AND HE IS NEVER COMING BACK. ROYALE: THIS WAS JIMMIE BEASLEY DAYS BEFORE THE CRASH. THIS IS HIM NOW. >> WHEN SHE SAYS THAT SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHO I AM, THAT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO HEAR AND THAT BREAKS MY HEART AND IT MAKES ME WANT TO CRY. >> CAN YOU CRY >> I DO CRY. >> HAD AT A CHECKPOINT BEEN THERE, HAD A SPEED TRAP BEEN THERE, HAD ANYTHING BEEN THERE OUR LIVES WOULD BE GOING ON AS USUAL AND WE WOULD BE PLANNING FOR OUR RETIRMENT. ROYALE: LAST YEAR, 159 NEW MEXICANS WERE KILLED IN DWI RELATED CRASHES. THAT SAME YEAR, STATE POLICE CONDUCTED 173 CHECKPOINTS , ARRESTING 130 PEOPLE. IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT, BUT IN TARGET 7’S SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS, WE FOUND ONE STATE THAT CONDUCTED NEARLY 900 CHECKPOINTS IN ONE YEAR, ARRESTED 773 PEOPLE. THE PROGRAM WAS CALLED CHECKPOINT TENNESSEE. THE STATE SPENT NEARLY $1 MILLION TO HAVE A CHECKPOINT IN EVERY COUNTY, EVERY WEEKEND, FOR A YEAR. IN ONE YEAR, DWI CRASHES IN TENNESSEE DROPPED BY 20%. BUT THE PROGRAM IS NO LONGER RUNNING. LAW ENFORCEMENT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY HAS GOTTEN AWAY FROM USING CHECKPOINTS DUE TO SOCIAL MEDIA. PEOPLE NOW KNOW WHERE CHECKPOINTS ARE AND ARREST NUMBERS AT THOSE STOPS HAVE GONE DOWN. LINDA ATKINSON IS THE DIRECTOR OF NEW MEXICO’S DWI RESOURCE CENTER. >> YOU KNOW WHAT A SUCCESSFUL CHECK POINT IS? ZERO ARREST AND ZERO CRASHES. ROYALE: RAY WILSON SAYS IT IS STILL AN EFFECTIVE TOOL. >> NOT ONLY DOES IT DETER, IT CATCHES THOSE THAT ARE ON THE ROAD. ROYALE: WOULD MORE CHECKPOINTS WORK? >> EVEN JUST ONE CHECKPOINT IS GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT ON AN AREA. ROYALE: THAT’S SOMETHING SARAH THINKS ABOUT A LOT. >> IF YOU CAN STOP ONE PERSON FROM MAKING THAT SAME DECISION THAT THE GENTLEMAN WHO HIT MY HUSBAND DID, I THINK IT’S WORTH EVERY NICKEL. I REALLY DO.

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Sarah Beasley feels like she doesn't know her husband anymore."He is still physically here,” she said. “My husband died that night. It's a terrible thing to say."Jimmie Beasley was seriously injured when he was rear-ended by a man the night before Christmas Eve 2017. Police said the man was under the influence of drugs. Beasley, 47, suffered a traumatic brain injury when his head hit the side of his pickup.“When you are married to someone as long as we have been, every morning you see the eyes of the person you're in love with and you see every ray of emotion. Love, hate, anger the whole rainbow,” Sarah Beasley said. “The last two years you look in his eyes and you see nothing - just fear and not much more. I miss my husband and he is never coming back.”Before the crash Jimmie Beasley was full of life. He rode motorcycles, was a city garbage truck driver, a father and dreamed of retiring with his wife and traveling the country.Now, he’s unemployed, gets constant headaches, forgets where he is at, has a five-second delay to react, has to wear special glasses to protect his eyes from the light and gets lost when he goes to the drug store.“When she says that she doesn't know who I am, that is very difficult to hear and that breaks my heart and it makes me want to cry,” Jimmie Beasley said.So, what would have prevented the crash?“Had a checkpoint been there, had a speed trap been there, had anything been there, our lives to be going on as usual and we would be planning for our retirement,” Sarah Beasley said.Last year 159 New Mexicans were killed in DWI related crashes. That same year state police conducted 173 checkpoints throughout the state arresting 130 people.It seems like a lot. But in Target 7's search for solutions to the state’s crime crisis, it found one state that conducted nearly 900 checkpoints in one year arresting 773 people.The program was called checkpoint Tennessee. The state spent nearly $1 million to have a checkpoint in, every county, every weekend for a year.In one year, DWI crashes in Tennessee dropped by 20 percent. But the program is no longer running. Law enforcement throughout the country has gotten away from using checkpoints due to social media. People now know where checkpoints are and arrest numbers at those stops have gone down. “You know what a successful checkpoint is? Zero arrests and zero crashes,” said Linda Atkinson, executive director of the DWI resource center. “It's a lot of money but so is losing a life, and injury, and arrests, and court costs, and funeral costs.”State police Lt. Ray Wilson says checkpoints are still an effective tool for law enforcement."It serves two purposes. Not only does it detour people from driving intoxicated but it also catches people who are driving intoxicated,” he said.So would more checkpoints in New Mexico work?“Even just one checkpoint is going to have an impact on an area,” Lt. Wilson said.That's something Sarah Beasley thinks about -- a lot. “If you can stop one person,” Sarah Beasley said. “Arrest one person stop one person from making that same decision that the gentleman who hit my husband did, I think it's worth every nickel, I really do.”“I think it would work in New Mexico,” her husband replied.