![]() The “ABQ i-Team” focused on five parts of town, including the long-maligned International District in Southeast Albuquerque, singling them out as clustered hotbeds of crime and havens for criminals. ![]() “This was truly like taking someone’s watch and telling them what time it is.”Īs the clock ran out on Berry’s time in office, he used the last of a $1.2 million Bloomberg Philanthropies grant to hire a longtime Republican political operative to oversee a comprehensive study of crime, which has spiked during his eight-year administration. “It’s shockingly lacking in insight or solutions,” Keller said. The report provided no clues as to where the underlying data came from, how they were crunched, or why the authors made certain decisions - such as their heavy focus on a swath of the city’s southeast quadrant, which the report heavily over-sized by square mileage and population compared to the other “clusters.”Īlbuquerque mayoral candidate Tim Keller speaking at public forum organized by the Fraternal Order of Police. Mirroring a New Mexico In Depth analysis, several candidates said the report lacked the characteristics and hallmarks of traditional, research-based studies they’d seen previously. In interviews with New Mexico In Depth, both candidates - like the five others they bested in last week’s first round of voting - questioned whether the information should even be considered “research.” It showed five “clusters” of high crime areas both candidates said have long been understood as problems for the city. That’s because neither man found anything “groundbreaking” in the 134-page document Berry, a Republican, released in August through the Albuquerque Journal. The two candidates headed for a mayoral runoff election next month, two-term Republican city councilor Dan Lewis and Democratic state Auditor Tim Keller, said the information about crime concentration likely won’t guide their crime-fighting plans if elected. 1 issue - may sit on a shelf unused when his successor takes office Dec. The “groundbreaking research” Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry commissioned on crime - the city’s No. ![]() Mayor Richard Berry appears with law enforcement officials and state lawmakers in 2015 to advocate for tougher crime measures / Andy Lyman of New Mexico Political Report
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