As the Albuquerque area continues to see an uptick in violent crimes, more than 20 different law enforcement agencies from across New Mexico have teamed up to develop a checklist to help combat crime.

Every item on the checklist came from the Albuquerque Metro Crime Initiative, according to KOB4.

"The work of the Metro Crime Initiative is a reflection of each of us believing that violent crime is unacceptable," Mayor Tim Keller (D-Albuquerque) wrote in a Sept. 21 tweet. "We are all sick of the dead ends of past ‘one off’ efforts to fix the criminal justice system, and we are holding each other accountable to do our part."

KOB4 reported that a case study is being done as part of the Metro Crime Initiative. 

Forty "action items" are compiled in a list in an effort to lower crime in the metro area. Items were divided into six different categories that include fighting crime, lowering gun violence, clearing backlogs in the court system, strengthening diversion and building upon behavioral health and violence intervention programs, KOB reported.

The goal is to align the different agencies' policies and implementation to check off items on the list, which The City of Albuquerque has posted in its entirety online.