Albuquerque: Slayings in 2005.

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http://www1.abqtrib.com/albq/special/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19878_4352195,00.html

December 30, 2005

Sixty-nine men, women and children were slain in the Albuquerque metro area and Rio Rancho in 2005, as of today. Summaries, listed motives and case status were compiled from criminal complaints, reports and interviews with the Albuquerque Police Department, Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department and the Rio Rancho Department of Public Safety. The agency that handled each case is noted by its acronym.

This provides summaries for each of those cases, e.g.:

5. Feb. 13. APD. Genaro Ahumada-Loya, 53, was beaten to death when police say he attempted to protect his daughter and toddler grandson from the boy's father, Cesar "Armando" Espino-Vargas, 22, and another man, Arturo Grajeda, 48, at 8004 Grand Blvd. S.E. Motive: domestic. Status: closed by arrest.

From the viewpoint of gathering data, it's interesting to read these and note how many are knifings/shootings/other, how many involve multiple assailants, how many were domestic disturbances and how many weren't, and so on. Of course, this only reflects cases that ended in a fatality! Still, if you aren't involved in drugs or involved with an abusive domestic partner, and stay out of arguments (not that all these things are entirely within one's control), it seems to really improve your odds--the number of random street robberies that so many of us imagine being our biggest threat seems to be relatively low, and many of them involve guns so that martial arts training would be of less use than in a case not involving weapons.

But those robberies, carjackings, random attacks by the mentally ill, and sexual assaults do appear on that list, and not all of those cases listed as due to "argument" are necessarily ones in which the victim had a chance to avoid the argument. In some cases it appears that the victim was attempting to defend a family member from an abusive spouse/parent, as in the example quoted above.

It would be interesting to see data for all assaults. Recent stories point to a rise in meth-related crime here. We have had that in Indiana for a while but now it's growing here in NM. The number of shootings on the list makes a concealed carry permit start to sound more attractive. There was a prominent case of defense of another by a concealed weapon user in the state this year:

45. Aug. 25. APD. Felix Vigil, 54, was shot by Albuquerque police cold case unit volunteer Due Moore, 72, when Vigil apparently began stabbing his ex-wife, a Wal-Mart employee, at the store at 301 San Mateo Blvd. S.E. The shooting was the first fatal one by someone with a concealed-carry permit. Motive: defense. Status: justified homicide.
 
arnisador said:
http://www1.abqtrib.com/albq/special/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19878_4352195,00.html

It would be interesting to see data for all assaults. Recent stories point to a rise in meth-related crime here. We have had that in Indiana for a while but now it's growing here in NM. The number of shootings on the list makes a concealed carry permit start to sound more attractive. There was a prominent case of defense of another by a concealed weapon user in the state this year:

I agree; there are so many situations that unarmed techniques simply are not going to be effective against. Meth is a real problem here in Northern California as well.
 
arnisador said:
Still, if you aren't involved in drugs or involved with an abusive domestic partner, and stay out of arguments (not that all these things are entirely within one's control), it seems to really improve your odds--the number of random street robberies that so many of us imagine being our biggest threat seems to be relatively low, and many of them involve guns so that martial arts training would be of less use than in a case not involving weapons.

As one instructor I had pointed out, we have more of a choice than the media would make us think we do.
 
I agree; there are so many situations that unarmed techniques simply are not going to be effective against.

Man kills robbery suspect

A would-be robber got more than he bargained for early Saturday when his intended victim pulled out a handgun and shot him five times outside a Lawrence bar, authorities said.

[...]


Eric Conter, 22, Indianapolis, had left the bar and climbed into his pickup. Zenor reached through the window, tried to pull a necklace off Conter's neck and began choking him, Lawrence Police Chief Jack Bailey said.


Acting in self-defense, Conter pulled out his 9 mm pistol and shot Zenor, Bailey said.

Sometimes, it helps to have a gun with you!
 
Tools always help! It is interesting that crime is up nationwide this year. I have noticed several articles in the last few weeks saying that statistically crime it up.
 
It's way up in Indianapolis--they are talking about raising taxes to help deal with it.

Meth, anyone? That's the biggest part of it here in Indiana.
 
It's way up in Indianapolis--they are talking about raising taxes to help deal with it.

So it's too expensive for criminals to live there??
 
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