Marisol Valles García is currently living in El Paso, Texas. A play called "So Go the Ghosts of Mexico" by Matthew Paul Olmos, based on her experiences, opened at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Manhattan, in April 2013. Valles Garcia is married and the mother of a baby boy. She reportedly took the job to change her community. "We're all afraid in Mexico now. We can't let fear beat us", she said after being sworn in. The district has 9,148 inhabitants, and a police force of nineteen. Valles Garcia said she intended to hire more women, and focus on community outreach and prevention.
Public criminology etiology of drug abuse and the assessment of drug policy, race and criminal justice. George L. Kirkham was a criminologist who became a police officer. He wrote a book entitled "signal zero" in 1976 which was an attempt to change student's perceptions of a police officer. Despite these widespread calls for public criminology, many criminologists have voiced concerns regarding the challenges and pitfalls facing the emerging discipline. Uggen & Inderbitzin themselves highlight the structural disincentives towards practicing public criminology including concerns about the "out-left political agenda of many public sociologists... which is a perceived retreat from scientific standards and methods,