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Here I always wear my helmet and I often look over my shoulder when I'm in the bike lane. Bike lanes are a little scary when you're closer to traffic in the bike lane than you are on the far right. I don't let it deter me though. Too enjoyable being out in the open and on the trails on the bike.
Nobody is mentioning the UNM athlete who was shot to death a few days ago in Nob Hill?
The article that talks about this says there have been 118 separate shooting in Albq. in the first 112 days of the year so far.
Nobody is mentioning the UNM athlete who was shot to death a few days ago in Nob Hill?
The article that talks about this says there have been 118 separate shooting in Albq. in the first 112 days of the year so far.
How do shootings in 2019 in Chicago compare? Albuquerque must be behind the Windy City in murders in 2019. Surely Albuquerque is. Come back to the class with that information - I don't have time ta look it up right now.
Never mind. I just looked it up. Turns out I do have the time. It was easy. I Googled it. 148 murders so far this year in Chicago, which is 22 fewer than in 2018. In contrast, there were 23 homicides in Albuquerque through April 23, 2019, and 114 people have been shot through May 4, 2019 in the Duke City.
Does that mean that living in Albuquerque is safer? I'll leave that to anyone who wants to chime in. I'm in Alamogordo, not quite Mayberry, but much, much smaller than Albuquerque.
I'll chime in on deaths due to gun violence which is an epidemic in the United States:
"The U.S. has the 28th-highest rate in the world: 4.43 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2017. That was nine times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.47 deaths per 100,000 people — and 29 times as high as in Denmark, which had 0.15 deaths per 100,000.
"The 2017 figures also paint a fairly rosy picture for much of the rest of the world, with deaths due to gun violence rare even in many countries that are extremely poor — such as Bangladesh, which saw 0.07 deaths per 100,000 people."
How do shootings in 2019 in Chicago compare? Albuquerque must be behind the Windy City in murders in 2019. Surely Albuquerque is.
According to the link a few posts up, Illinois only ranks a few spots higher than NM in terms of crime.
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Never mind. I just looked it up. Turns out I do have the time. It was easy. I Googled it. 148 murders so far this year in Chicago, which is 22 fewer than in 2018. In contrast, there were 23 homicides in Albuquerque through April 23, 2019,
what's the population of Chicago? what's the population of Albuquerque. Gotta compare per-capita, not raw numbers.
Court records show Bashir has had a few run-ins with Albuquerque police over the past several years, including a case, that was later dismissed, in which police say he shot a man in the stomach. In a more recent incident, Bashir is accused of firing weapons from a vehicle with two other men in southeast Albuquerque.
In November 2017 Bashir was charged with aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm after allegedly shooting and injuring Benjamin Mack following a fight in Downtown Albuquerque. The case was dismissed in Jan. 2018 after prosecutors failed to comply with hearing deadlines, including not arranging witness interviews. The case was refiled last February and Bashir was indicted April 9.
Then on Feb. 13 of this year Bashir was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon , shooting at or from a motor vehicle and tampering with evidence after police say officers responding to gunfire in southeast Albuquerque found Bashir and two other men in a vehicle with rifles and handguns. The three told police they had been in a gunfight with another vehicle over “gang beef†but officers never found the other vehicle.
How are people supposed to enjoy a night out at a bar or club, with so many of these violent offenders around?
I'll chime in on deaths due to gun violence which is an epidemic in the United States:
"The U.S. has the 28th-highest rate in the world: 4.43 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2017. That was nine times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.47 deaths per 100,000 people — and 29 times as high as in Denmark, which had 0.15 deaths per 100,000.
"The 2017 figures also paint a fairly rosy picture for much of the rest of the world, with deaths due to gun violence rare even in many countries that are extremely poor — such as Bangladesh, which saw 0.07 deaths per 100,000 people."
There are areas of this country where gun ownership is high, but gun violence is low. There is a demographic pattern to gun violence that many don't want to see. Since you love statistics so much:
Of course, all of this is an open secret, but one that must not be talked about. But yeah, take away guns from the more typically law-abiding segments of the population, so they can't defend themselves from the segments of the population that commit disproportionate amounts of violent crime.
Wondering if this suspect is one of our holy refugees.
We don't know where he comes from but that shouldn't be an issue. You doubtless know that refugees are less likely to commit crimes than natural born citizens in the US. The real issue is that it is way too easy to procure weapons in this country. We are a country that fetishizes guns and violence and you can be a victim no matter where you live.
But I wonder why did he single out this person to shoot? According to the story, the victim was in a fistfight (over what?), and then Bashir comes up out of nowhere and shoots him at 2:15 in the morning. Don't you stop to think what his motive could have been? It doesn't sound like a random act to me but more like an orchestrated hit.
Looks like Judge Brown done dude it again. Watch the news folks. His name will be coming up.
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Good to know you have your priorities all straightened out. Very admirable.
