GUILTY — NOT BY ACCIDENT, BUT BY CHOICE. In this jurisdiction, human beings were reported dead. Calls for service were made. Exact locations were provided. And the agencies legally responsible for responding chose not to act. The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator Chief Heather Jarrell at the Doña Ana County Sheriff Kim "K.K." Stewart have refused — repeatedly. As a result, human beings are left decomposing in the desert. Not lost. Not unknown. Not hypothetical. Some have identification. Some have cell phones. Some have clothing, prayer cards, personal items — the unmistakable evidence of a life. And still, they are left there. Let’s be clear about what this is not. This is not a staffing issue. This is not a communication breakdown. This is not a misunderstanding of responsibility. This is abandonment. And it is not random. If the deceased had been white, middle-class, and found near a trailhead, a ranch road, or a suburban edge, there would have been an immediate response....