This chart is from the Esperanza Shelter for Battered Families in Santa Fe. It shows the dramatic increase in the number of domestic violence victims, both adults and children, they tended to last year, as well as a slight increase in the number of offenders who got some form of counseling through the shelter.

The shelter’s figures don’t give a complete picture, however. Police statistics provided by Santa Fe Domestic & Sexual Violence Liaison Carol Horwitz show fewer 911 calls, but more arrests.

Those stats, and more, after the cut.

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Without much explanation, newly appointed City Manager Robert Romero called SFR (and the other papers, presumably) to share informations about two settlements by the Santa Fe Police Department that will cost the city $240,000.

You can likely expect to see more about these cases in the dailies tomorrow; SFR is posting the bare-bones details here.

The larger settlement was granted to Frederico Rael involving a 2007 incident on Camino Piedra Lumbre. “Mr Rael suffered significant physical injury as a result of the forced used to unlawfully handcuff him while arresting him for a crime Officer [Flavio] Salazar knew he had not committed,” a summary of Rael’s complaint by attorneys Richard Rosenstock and Jeffrey Haas says.

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I really have nothing to add to this press release from Santa Fe Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Wagner.

OK, I do have something to add. I hope they park this bad boy on Agua Fria.

Update Nov. 6: OK, I have something more to add. The New Mex said yesterday that drivers won’t get auto-tickets unless they’re driving 11 mph or more over the speed limit. Which means the police are admitting the actual speed limit in Santa Fe is whatever the sign says plus 10, right?

The current issue of SFR has an update on the still-somewhat-mysterious death of Gilbert Roybal, the hair salon owner who was struck—apparently just once—on the street on Fiesta weekend, and died the next morning.

First, SFR reported witnesses’ concerns that responding Santa Fe Police Department officers showed little apparent concern as to Roybal’s welfare and may have missed their best chance to find his attacker. Then, we reported the Santa Fe Fire Department’s defense of its own medics’ response, along with one 911 caller’s fears, voiced to emergency personnel, that Roybal may have had a brain injury.

Now we’re posting the audio of the calls related to Roybal received by the Santa Fe Regional Emergency Communications Center. The calls suggest any errors that may have been made by local first responders might have been compounded by triage nurses or doctors at the hospital.

Citing its privacy policies, CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center has refused to explain when and how Roybal was treated after he arrived there. The time stamps on the calls provide a rough timeline of Roybal’s treatment, from witnesses at the scene of his attack to doctors calling the SFRECC to gather more information about what exactly had happened to Roybal.

The first call from the hospital came at 12:54 am—approximately five hours after Roybal was loaded into an ambulance.

There is disagreement within the medical field about the existence of a so-called “golden hour” in which a trauma patient’s life is most likely to be saved, but a long delay in treatment would certainly not have done the injured Roybal any favors.

Here are the emergency calls from the hospital.

Sept. 12, 12:55am — (Original of call unclear)

“Do you know what happened…?”

Sept. 12, 12:54 am — Hospital to SFRCC

“I was told to call one of you guys if you could send an officer over here…”

We’ve posted the rest of the 911 calls in reverse chronological order after the cut.

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This just in from Santa Fe Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jason Wagner:

** NEWS RELEASE **

Santa Fe Police Detective Sergeant Louis Carlos announces that on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, the Crimes Against Children Unit arrested and charged three (3) juvenile males involved in an incident in which a Santa Fe Public Schools bus driver was assaulted with a handgun.

On Friday September 25, 2009, the adult victim was driving children to school when he observed several juveniles fighting near De Vargas Middle School. The bus driver stopped the bus and told the boys to stop fighting. One of the juvenile males produced a handgun and threatened the bus driver. The bus driver immediately drove away and the juvenile suspects fled the scene.

Through his investigation, Detective John Van Etten arrested and charged the three juvenile males. Charges of Conspiracy, Aggravated Assault on a School Official, Tampering with Evidence, Resisting Arrest and Bringing Contraband to a Place of Imprisonment were filed against the three juveniles. All three are currently detained at the Santa Fe County Youth Detention Center.