Rabidly Alt Leftist Gov and legislature. Estimated 30% of the population are illegals
You got what you voted for NM.
It’s Memphis in the desert!
Never miss that left turn in Albuquerque.
Our daughter works for a company based in ABQ and goes there several times a year on business. I knew crime was bad in ABQ, but not THIS bad. I just sent her the table in your post and told her to ramp up her care.
I would have thought that crime would be down in New Mexico, expecially ALbuquerque, with Gus Fring, Walter White, the Salamancas, and Nacho Varga out of the picture. Also, Saul Goodman is still serving time.
I knew Albuquerque would be #1 before I even looked.
Breaking Bad wasn’t all fiction 😏
Gangs own Albuquerque.
Look at crime and the murder rate South of the US border: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/World_map_of_homicide_rates_per_100%2C000_people.png/1024px-World_map_of_homicide_rates_per_100%2C000_people.png
When people leave one nation and resettle to a new nation, SOME assimilate, but especially in the West where assimilation has been replaced with multiculturalism, that does not generally occur (why Spanish is a common language in these areas also).
What you really get, is that people leave the Middle East, Africa, or Latin America and resettle in the US but bring all their cultural values and norms with them.
Some of that is nice: the dance, food, a family oriented culture, Christian values (for the most part)...
But some of it is bad: crime, corruption, a socialist world view (even though they are mostly Catholics).
Roswell? Would they say the issue has to do with “aliens”?
Couldn’t resist.
That has nothing to do with illegal crossings ,I’m sure.
I’ve concealed carry for 2 decades. I’ve only felt like I was going to have to pull my weapon twice; shirt pulled up and hand resting on the grip. Both times were in Albuquerque, as we were stopped to get fuel on trips.
Lovely governor there !!
My only experience with Albuquerque is driving through it on I 40. From that point of view it seemed quite nice for a city.
There was a proposal at one time to make El Paso part of New Mexico. Looks like the residents of El Paso are lucky that never happened.
Hey! We’re #1 in something for a change!
When I lived there sixty years ago and fifty years ago there were plenty of jobs and the schools were great.
Now NM is on Hard Times due to being Californication taking place same as Colorado has been Californicated.
Sixty years ago Arkan-saw and Mississippi fought to keep from having the worst schools in the nation.
Now they show a sigh of relief as New Mexico schools are now rated as the worst!
https://www.krqe.com/news/education/wallethub-new-mexico-ranked-last-on-best-school-systems/
https://wallethub.com/edu/e/states-with-the-best-schools/5335
https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US3502000-albuquerque-nm/
Of the 111 Albuquerque gangs, 61 are Hispanic, 31 black, and 19 white.
Alburquerque is half hispanice. The gangs are mostly hispanic.
Surprisingly El Paso is lower than the national average. Being right at the border you’d think it’d be worse than Albuquerque.
I was TDY with my boss to Kirtland AFB. He had a way of asking weird questions. We were at a gas station off base just outside the Wyoming Gate late at night and he asked the cashier “where do I have to go to get shot around here?” She just stared at him for a bit, then replied “just step outside.”
I hate going there and try to avoid it like the plague.
A friend of ours had a son on Albuquerque PD. He left and came to Texas. He loves it and even found a wife.
