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Originally posted by DaddyBare
reply to post by Maxmars
Normally I would agree with you but one thing to take into account is these cities rely heavily on tourists and high crime stats are not the types of thing you want inflate... not when money is so tight... if anything you notice the cities like Dallas and Phoenix refuse to post their stats... Phoenix seriously does not the world to know the Mexican drug war had spilled into their seemingly quiet retirement community,,,but it has and in a big way... for the most part we can assume the numbers shown are jilted towards the low end...
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
reply to post by DaddyBare
Uh, I was born & raised in New Mexico and parts of Albuquerque have always been widely considered to be a butcher shop where gang violence & just seemingly random acts of crime are concerned. I also lived 5 years in Arizona, from 2001 to 2006. Phoenix & Tucson were both hotbeds of crime ranging from some of the highest vehicle theft rates in the nation to encompassing some of the largest concentrations of meth labs.
I cannot speak for any other place you mentioned, but I think at least where Arizona & New Mexico are concerned, this has been building since long before the current economic disaster.