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A lot of gun violence. You'll get shot if you just look at someone funny. In a "Good" Neighborhood (Taylor Ranch - in a popular "family" park) some kid shot another kid that was running away - trying to get away. Tons of burglary and car theft. But mainly a lot of violent crime.
I moved to ABQ from Los Angeles (Long Beach - where the L.A. Riots started, remember?) and I felt much safer in the L.A. area than in ABQ. I finally got my butt outta there. The crime was awful and still is. I check the local TV website (KOB) usually every day and there's usually another front-page murder, rape, DWI/manslaughter, or home invasion - practically every day!
A lot of gun violence. You'll get shot if you just look at someone funny. In a "Good" Neighborhood (Taylor Ranch - in a popular "family" park) some kid shot another kid that was running away - trying to get away. Tons of burglary and car theft. But mainly a lot of violent crime.
I moved to ABQ from Los Angeles (Long Beach - where the L.A. Riots started, remember?) and I felt much safer in the L.A. area than in ABQ. I finally got my butt outta there. The crime was awful and still is. I check the local TV website (KOB) usually every day and there's usually another front-page murder, rape, DWI/manslaughter, or home invasion - practically every day!
I looked at a lot of people funny when I lived in ABQ and never got shot. I never even got the beat down!.
A lot of gun violence. You'll get shot if you just look at someone funny. In a "Good" Neighborhood (Taylor Ranch - in a popular "family" park) some kid shot another kid that was running away - trying to get away. Tons of burglary and car theft. But mainly a lot of violent crime.
Errr, no. Gun violence/murder rate for albuquerque is on par, or slightly below other cities in its size range. Albuquerque typically records 40 - 50 murders per year in a city of ~550,000 people. Nearly all, or the vast majority of these were drug-related etc. While I would certainly like to see that number at zero, violent crime rates aren't really all that high. As a comparison, Baltimore MD records between 200 and 250 murders per year, in a city of 600,000. Crime in ABQ is predictable as Zoidberg mentions.
All this violent crime talk started to make me worry, but then I remembered that I was born in the city that coined the term concrete jungle. Furthermore, I can get to carry in ABQ. =)
the guy that shot down a police helicopter and it landed in a neighborhood
I remember this. The shooter was an ex-marine sniper. Maybe another case of PTSD.
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this one is a while back but a 15 y/o and his friend took turns raping and beating a UNM student, then they raped her again after they killed her
Are you referring to the Linda Daniel's case? That was a long time ago -- 24 years. My sister used to work at Zinn's bakery when this happened and had always thought Johnny Zinn was a creep.
I remember this. The shooter was an ex-marine sniper. Maybe another case of PTSD.
Are you referring to the Linda Daniel's case? That was a long time ago -- 24 years. My sister used to work at Zinn's bakery when this happened and had always thought Johnny Zinn was a creep.
no, im not familiar with that one, this one I think was in the late 90's or early 2000's
next time ,go to the South Valley and look at people funny down there, pick the car that has the tattooed bald headed gangsters in it.
Those types of people don't exist in NM, remember?
--BtK
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