They tie crime tape from the sidewalk to the median, examine bullet casings and a small pool of blood and walk down the block to talk to the owners of a taco truck parked nearby who maybe saw or heard something. Several blocks away on Central, across from Pussycat Video and a recently shuttered Circle K convenience store, officers gather, their police cruiser lights flashing. On Utah, south of Zuni, four older men gather their folding chairs into a small circle and chat in Spanish as the sun sets. A young girl, maybe 10, wearing a dress, pedals over the dips and cracks of the sidewalk and into a mobile home park. In these neighborhoods, daily life regularly intersects with crime on the streets.Ĭhildren ride their bikes up and down the roads, hopping curbs and shouting to one another on a summer afternoon. Theft is rampant, too: One in four addresses have reported a property crime in the past three years. And more than 10 percent of the 12,444 addresses in the area have experienced one or more incidents involving violent crime. While only 6.7 percent of Albuquerque’s population lives in the area bounded roughly by Carlisle and Eubank and Lomas and Gibson, its residents experienced at least 27 percent of the city’s murders between 20. ![]() So data recently released by a city task force indicating that the area has had the highest concentration of violent crime in recent years was likely no surprise to them. It’s common knowledge to the residents of this area that many still call the “War Zone” that it is in the midst of a crime epidemic. ![]() Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)Ī trip down the dusty sunbaked streets of what the city of Albuquerque has optimistically named the “International District” reveals an area awash in drug deals, fast food trash and discarded needles. An officer ties off crime scene tape as police investigate a shooting on Central near Pennsylvania SE.
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