[CedarDave]

If visiting and staying overnight in ABQ, the usual cautions are advised:

• Do not leave important belongings in your vehicle and certainly not in plain sight.
• If traveling with a U-Haul, make sure you have a sturdy lock on the cargo door and disable the wheels with a heavy chain or other device so that a thief can not hot-wire the truck and drive away.
• If towing a trailer, secure it in a similar manner so a thief cannot drive off with it.
• To those visiting or living here, do not warm up your car in your driveway or hotel in winter, and do not leave it running with A/C on to cool it in the summer.

[CedarDave]

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[blackdog]

Wisconsin (not Madison or Milwaukee) has a winter rule. Everyone respects a running car in a parking spot when it’s winter. Nobody turns their car off when running errands and such. Nobody steals your car.

[vette6387]

Notice almost all the places have large populations of Mexicans. All the Central Valley CA cities are rife with them.

[Seaplaner]

Okay, the whole list makes sense to me except for Anchorage, Alaska.

Why there? Anyone?

[Army Air Corps]

Deter thieves by driving a Lada Riva.

[Doogle]

Sounds like the Albuquerque PD has to get a few “ bait cars” up and running

[gaijin]

About 5 years or so ago they did an audit of a Mexican parking lot noted for the consistent presence of premium autos there:

They ran the VINs and found that almost ALL the cars had been stolen from the USA.

IT WAS A MEXICAN POLICE STATION.

[Kickass Conservative]

Place all Plutonium Containers face down on the back seat so the Radioactive Symbol is not showing.

[TheRightGuy]

if you’re gonna steal cars in ABQ, the unser museum on the west side of town is a great place to start!!

[Clinging Bitterly]

Sure, we send some of our guys from Hobbs to our Alb location for training once in a while, our location is close to University and Menaul so it is a little sketchy there. Twice in the last couple years we have had guys’ trucks stolen staying at the Holiday Inn Express on Menaul. I have stayed up there a lot, usually at the Clubhouse and never had any trouble. Lately we have changed our preferred place to stay to NE Jefferson & I-25 but honestly I'm not sure that's any better.

[TheThirdRuffian]

We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!

Oh, wait.

Toss up to be whether Hobbes or ABQ is more dangerous.

I sadly know the ins-and-ours of Hobbes well, so I lean towards ABQ.