{"id":45322,"date":"2021-08-09T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/albuquerque-matches-record-number-of-homicides-this-year\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:45:00","slug":"albuquerque-matches-record-number-of-homicides-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/albuquerque-matches-record-number-of-homicides-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque matches record number of homicides this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE \u2013 With more than four months remaining, Albuquerque has already matched a record number of homicides this year within the city limits.<\/p>\n<p>City police said the homicide total hit 81 early Sunday. That&#8217;s equivalent to the record set in 2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/2417797\/city-breaks-yearly-homicide-record.html\" id=\"link-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em id=\"emphasis-370b2b6e614e1063f7d384856d4580c1\">Albuquerque Journal<\/em><\/a><em id=\"emphasis-370b2b6e614e1063f7d384856d4580c1\"> <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n<p>The total dropped to 77 in 2020 during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The <em id=\"emphasis-20597df63a49c79771a7737a1273a2a2\">Albuquerque Journal<\/em> reported that the city isn&#8217;t alone in seeing a tremendous spike in violence in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Data released by the Major Cities Chiefs Association showed that in the first six months of 2021, 45 cities out of the 66 that responded to a survey saw more homicides than in the first six months of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The percentages range from a 12% increase in Kansas City, Missouri, to a 350% increase in Mesa, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Tucson has seen 57 homicides so far this year, compared with 34 at this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tucson police, the city\u2019s highest number of homicides was 74 in 2009 and the department expects to surpass that total this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE \u2013 With more than four months remaining, Albuquerque has already matched a record number of homicides this year within the city limits. City police said the homicide total hit 81 early Sunday. That&#8217;s equivalent to the record set in 2019, the Albuquerque Journal reported. The total dropped to 77 in 2020 during the height [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45322"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}