Albuquerque, NM, auto thefts drop, but rate is still worst in the nation
The good news:
Almost 2,700 fewer cars – a 27% decrease – were stolen in 2018 in the Albuquerque area than the year before. Instead of the 1,096 cars stolen per 100,000 residents in 2017, that figure was 780 cars per 100,000 residents in 2018.
(Albuquerque’s population in 2017 was 558,000+)
The bad news: These gains weren't enough to dislodge the city from the number one hot spot for stolen vehicles per capita in the country.
It’s a standing that the Albuquerque metropolitan statistical area – including Bernalillo, Sandoval, Torrance and Valencia counties – has held for the past three years, according to an annual report compiled by the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
An APD spokesman said he did not have numbers on the cases cleared by an arrest each year.
https://www.abqjournal.com/1333048/abq-auto-thefts-drop-but-metro-still-no-1.html
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