and he’s familiar with the changing criminal dynamics. One thing you have to remember is that we put resources in those areas to protect victims.”
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Now with our Violence Intervention Program and our gun violence units, we are specifically trying to focus on drivers of crime, because we know that just because there’s poverty in an area, there’s still a lot of good people who live in that area. In the past, our philosophy was to go in and saturate an area and give everyone traffic tickets and look for people with warrants. “I think this is where our approach is so important for building public trust. “The voices that felt APD never heard them, we need to make sure that they always have someone who is listening,” Medina said. There’s a Problem Response Team assigned to the Southeast Area Command, which employs a variety of outreach strategies, including Ambassadors – police officers who work with specific minority communities. remains a high-crime area, requiring all the community policing tools at the department’s disposal. This year there have been 11 through the end of July – a pace that would result in a slight dropoff if it holds.Īlbuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina acknowledges that the I.D.
Last year, when Albuquerque set an all-time mark for homicides with 117, there were 24 in the I.D. But addiction, crime and homelessness are big problems. The menace of competing neighborhood gangs may be gone. The Uplift Program helps provide resources and information, such as rental assistance, housing stability, mental health resources, workforce information, educational resources, voter registration, COVID-19 vaccine confidence and broadband relief, for those in need. Will Williams, with the New Mexico Black Leadership Council (NMBLC), gives resident Percy Edmundson, who has lived at the 7900 Bell Avenue apartments for three years in the International District, information about the Uplift Program in southeast Albuquerque, N.M., on July 26, 2022. The New Mexico Veterans’ Memorial is located on Louisiana, north of Gibson. Weekend flea markets attract treasure hunters. There are some great ethnic restaurants – the May Cafe comes to mind – and the Talin Market provides an array of international food items. Williams is hopeful the gleaming new International District Library will spur additional investment in the area. There are only a few pockets of the area that are kind of bad and give it a bad name.” “There are a lot of hard-working people in this community. “Given the ‘War Zone’ stigma, it’s a real tight-knit community,” Williams said. There are a few signs of squalor – piles of rubbish in the street, likely from an eviction – but mostly the small homes on small lots give off a working-class vibe. Some apartments are boarded up – possibly being renovated. Instead, it’s a lot of housing for one of the most densely populated and ethnically diverse areas of the city. This isn’t a multi-modal, mixed-use urban environment with coffee shops and shopfront design standards. We rolled through residential areas in the southeast quadrant of the district known for a concentration of multi-family dwellings. Now he strives to be a catalyst for improvement. “I was part of the problems in the neighborhood,” Williams, 46, said candidly as he drove me around the “I.D.” – an area roughly bounded by San Mateo, Lomas, Wyoming and Gibson in the southeastern part of the city.
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Will Williams grew up in Albuquerque’s International District in the 1990s when it was still known as the “War Zone” – a drug-infested area with crack houses “block to block” and violent gang rivalries.
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