How Dangerous is ABQ... (Albuquerque: how much, living, moving)

[mortimer]

Originally Posted by Zoidberg

Apparently people get charged with attempted burglary all the time whether they try to break the lock, push open the window, or push past the occupant. People could see them, they could be committing other crimes, etc.

Just as real burglaries are often not reported, maybe your theoretical number of "check the door" attempted burglaries is higher than listed in the statistics; but just because you can think of times when the police wouldn't know about them doesn't mean it skews the numbers in only that direction. I'm sure plenty of people are actually burglarized and either never report it or aren't even aware of it.

My original point was that in your original list:

32% Door was unlocked
16% Forced door lock
11% Forced window open
.9% through window
.8% Broke/cut glass
.7% Broke door panel
.6% "False Pretences"
.8% Had a key
.5% Pushed past person ...

The 32% unlocked door is only for such instances where a break-in
occurred via that method. All the other 70% stuff you know whether
an attempt has been made.

Earlier, you wrote:

Z> ... moral of the story is, locking your door will deter one
Z> of three burglars ( ... try a different method of entry).

If a guy walks down your street and checks every single door on both
sides of the street, an attempt has been made. If 95% of the time that
a break-in attempt on your house comes via that method then the act
of locking your door prevents 95% of the attempts.

What I was trying to say is that for this method of attempted entry,
the vast majority of failures are not detected at all.

For all other attempted methods, some evidence is almost always left.

If you live within some proximity to places where vagrants hang out,
your doorknob gets checked, perhaps weekly. So it was when I lived
in the ghetto.

[lobo]

Just returned from a vacation in Florida. After watching the news and reading the papers there, I'd have to say that Albuquerque is way safer! The crime there seems to be about 100 times worse.

[aggiewalk]

well there's this:

www.KOB.com - Man slashes woman at bus stop with box cutter

[casden]

Originally Posted by lobo

Just returned from a vacation in Florida. After watching the news and reading the papers there, I'd have to say that Albuquerque is way safer! The crime there seems to be about 100 times worse.

No offense to anyone here, but it seems like when you have a tourist frequented area - like Florida, L.A., New Orleans, Philadelphia, ABQ/Santa Fe ==> but especially a touristy area that's in a warm climate, you have all these thieves and psychotic homeless people that come out of the woodwork.

There seems to be more homeless people, and aggressive homeless people asking for money, etc. There seem to be more cases of thieves stealing the poor unexpected victims possessions in those areas.

Maybe they need more cops and more severe penalties for these petty crimes in Albuquerque.

I'm just sayin...

[bradly]

Originally Posted by casden

No offense to anyone here, but it seems like when you have a tourist frequented area - like Florida, L.A., New Orleans, Philadelphia, ABQ/Santa Fe - especially a touristy area that's in a warm climate, you have all these thieves and psychotic homeless people that come out of the woodwork.

There seems to be more homeless people, and aggressive homeless people asking for money, etc. There seem to be more cases of thieves stealing the poor unexpected victims possessions.

I'm just sayin...

Like for Ballon Fiesta.. Sheesh they break into cars at hotels like nothing..

[desert sun]

Originally Posted by bradly

Like for Ballon Fiesta.. Sheesh they break into cars at hotels like nothing..

balloon fiesta is an all you can eat buffet for thieves, the lady's husband who died in the balloon accident last year had her car robbed the next day.

I just read in the paper also that several wildlife officers vehicles were broken into, they got the guns out of those.

[bradly]

Originally Posted by desert sun

balloon fiesta is an all you can eat buffet for thieves, the lady's husband who died in the balloon accident last year had her car robbed the next day.

I just read in the paper also that several wildlife officers vehicles were broken into, they got the guns out of those.

Yea.. Totally. Poor people. Police were actually on alert this year. But it took them this long to look at the problem. Hopefull the city can target this problem.

[lobo]

Originally Posted by aggiewalk

well there's this:

www.KOB.com - Man slashes woman at bus stop with box cutter

There were 15 -20 stories a day like this in Florida. Just one after the other, after the other. The crimes that I heard about on the news were done to locals, not tourists (lots of in home break-ins). I'm sure tourists get their share, as well though.

[mortimer]

Originally Posted by desert sun

I just read in the paper also that several wildlife officers vehicles were broken into, they got the guns out of those.

They also got some laptops - if this is the same event I heard about.

I never leave my laptop in the car. Ever.
I take it into the grocery store with me.

Government employees frequently leave laptops in vehicles where they get stolen. They should be required to have all their bank/card account numbers and passwords recorded in a non-secure sector of the hard drive so it can be accessed by anyone in physical posession of the computer.

This is New Mexico. Put your gun in a holster and wear it on your hip. Don't leave it in the vehicle.

[ziaAirmac]

I was getting ready for a demonstration and through a bad series of events I ended up locking my keys in my car while parked in a loading zone. I went inside and fashioned a little tool from a coat hanger. I've never had to do this before, figured I had a 10% chance of pulling it off, but I wanted to try before I waited an hour to pay the locksmith $80. I have a late model car and had it open almost faster than if I had used my keys. I'm not even kidding. I was at once: relieved and disgusted. I wouldn't leave ANYTHING of value in your car. That includes auto charger cords going into 'hidden' center consoles. If it needs a charger, it's probably more valuable than a CD, and they'll break in for CD's. That goes for the windshield mounted wide touchscreen gps's too. You can't remove the bandits, so you're left with making the next guy looking like a better/easier mark, sadly.