4 New Mexico cities on "Most Secure" list!!!! (safe, ranked)

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by loborick

My brother lives in San Antonio and laughs when I talk about government corruption here. He says it's nothing compared to San Antonio and Texas. And what about Chicago? It's everywhere. I just got off the SF New Mexican site and people were saying how SF was not safe anymore because a guy murdered his girlfriend yesterday. It is the fourth homicide in the city this year. Wow.

We lived 13 years in Texas, 7 in NM, let's face it all states have their share except AR of course () but I still think NM was more obvious...The corruption was blatent!!!

Nita

[desert sun]

Originally Posted by loborick

My brother lives in San Antonio and laughs when I talk about government corruption here. He says it's nothing compared to San Antonio and Texas. And what about Chicago? It's everywhere. I just got off the SF New Mexican site and people were saying how SF was not safe anymore because a guy murdered his girlfriend yesterday. It is the fourth homicide in the city this year. Wow.

so Im assuming your brother knows all about NM corruption

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by loborick

My brother lives in San Antonio and laughs when I talk about government corruption here. He says it's nothing compared to San Antonio and Texas. And what about Chicago? It's everywhere. I just got off the SF New Mexican site and people were saying how SF was not safe anymore because a guy murdered his girlfriend yesterday. It is the fourth homicide in the city this year. Wow.

of course it is safe, but overall NM is very corrumpt. This isn't saying Chicago or Ill isn't, as well as other places, and Sante Fe is a great place to live if you have money, are on the liberal side and welsome tourism, all this, doesn't change the fact NM, especially in the past few years has had a run of corrupt politicians..

Nita

[funkymonkey]

Originally Posted by nmnita

of course it is safe, but overall NM is very corrumpt. This isn't saying Chicago or Ill isn't, as well as other places, and Sante Fe is a great place to live if you have money, are on the liberal side and welsome tourism, all this, doesn't change the fact NM, especially in the past few years has had a run of corrupt politicians..

Nita

Which politicians are corrupt?

[Merlander]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Tim I beleive you according to the study, but I wonder how the study was handled???

Nita, I think the results of the study were based on the actual number of convictions for corruption. Which, of course, doesn't necessarily mean the most corrupt. One might even make the argument that the states with the most corruption convictions were best @ cracking down on corruption! I don't know...but there is probably some kind of correlation there...

[sandiaman]

I have lived in NM ( by choice) since 1969, moved here from Northern California. It is a love -hate relationship. The people, the hot food, the scenery and the climate are the pluses. The state government is the worst. Corrupt, corrupt , corrupt ! And tis crime riddled. It is a great place to be a criminal

[HTC]

Were also a big leader in Drunk Drivers and Domestic Violence.

[ajzjmsmom]

Originally Posted by HTC

Were also a big leader in Drunk Drivers and Domestic Violence.

wow, you aren't joking when you mention this, and not only are we a big leader we don't punish them for doing it. I always wondered what happened to the 3 strikes your out thing?

[bigsandyb]

Yup, we live very near San Antonio, and the news is frightful every night.....we are moving to Alamogordo this year, we hope.

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by sjbasin

Wow. Four cities in New Mexico are on the Farmers Insurance company list of "Most Secure Places to Live". Pretty cool. They are Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Cruces, and Farmington.



Fifth Annual Farmers Insurance Study Ranks Seattle Area as Most Secure Large U.S. Community

And a year later only one city in New Mexico is on the Farmers Insurance company list of "Most Secure Places to Live", Las Cruces.


Sixth Annual Farmers Insurance Study Ranks Most Secure Places to Live for 2009:
Large Metro Areas (500,000 or more residents)

1. Austin-Round Rock, Tex.
2. Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa
3. Madison, Wis.
4. Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, Md.
5. Rochester, N.Y.
6. Honolulu, Hawaii
7. Syracuse, N.Y.
8. El Paso, Tex.
9. Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Me.
10. Nassau-Suffolk Counties, N.Y.
11. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minn.
12. McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Tex.
13. Portland-Beaverton, Ore.-Vancouver, Wash.
14. New Haven-Milford, Conn.
15. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.
16. Pittsburgh, Pa.
17. Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash.
18. Colorado Springs, Colo.
19. Denver, Colo.
20. Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Mid-Size Cities (150,000 - 500,000 residents)

1. Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn.
2. Olympia, Wash.
3. Sioux Falls, S.D.
4. Bellingham, Wash.
5. Rochester, Minn.
6. Kennewick-Richland-Pasco, Wash.
7. Lynchburg, Va.
8. St. Cloud, Minn.
9. Duluth, Minn.-Superior, Wis.
10. Las Cruces, N.M.
11. Bremerton-Silverdale, Wash.
12. Killeen-Temple, Texas
13. Charlottesville, Va.
14. Provo-Orem, Utah
15. Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Ark.
16. Green Bay, Wis.
17. Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo.
18. Boulder, Colo.
19. Yakima, Wash.
20. Yuma, Ariz.

Small Towns (Fewer than 150,000 residents)

1. Lewiston, Idaho-Clarkston, Wash.
2. State College, Pa.
3. Bismarck, N.D.
4. Logan, Utah
5. Ithaca, N.Y.
6. Wenatchee, Wash.
7. Corvallis, Ore.
8. Morgantown, W.Va.
9. Eau Claire, Wis.
10. Rapid City, S.D.
11. Midland, Tex.
12. Sioux City, Iowa
13. Harrisonburg, Va.
14. Billings, Mont.
15. Grand Forks, N.D.-Crookston, Minn.
16. Grand Junction, Colo.
17. Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, Va.
18. Wausau, Wis.
19. Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Wash.
20. La Crosse, Wis.-Winona, Minn.