If I remember correctly, it’s the most violent town in New Mexico, bar none.
And, as a former resident of Hobbes, that’s saying something.
I lived in Nebraska and went to ERAU in Arizona for college in the 1980’s and would always drive through New Mexico at night at 79 mph (speed limit was 55, 80+ was a $32 fine, below 80 wasn’t worth the cops time).
Gallup was a gas stop and it was in bad shape, back then. If your main employer is Uranium mines, with a terrible safety track records and then even those close, your life sucks.
I remember drunk guys crawling down the road, a recently crashed pickup, other scenes of pure destitution.
Not the Saddest place on Earth, but one of the saddest in the US.