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Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White is upset at comments that Albuquerque mayor Martin Chavez made at a recent debate about the crime rate in unincorporated parts of Bernalillo County, which includes and surrounds the city.
During KOB-TV’s televised debate, Chavez argued that crime in unincorporated areas of Bernalillo County is on the rise. “Homicide rates were up 43 percent, burglaries were up 30 percent, auto theft is up 9 percent,” Chavez said of the unincorporated areas of Bernalillo County.
However, KOB-TV reports:
Sheriff White says those numbers don’t tell the whole story.
“To take one year, to say, ‘Oh, one year, you’ve had an increase,’ that doesn’t make a crime trend. And that’s a political cheap shot if you do that,” White said.
The sheriff says, instead, in his 7 years as sheriff, murder dropped 33 percent, burglaries are down 48 percent, and auto theft is down 49 percent.
White is calling on the mayor to apologize to his department.
White, a Republican, ran for Congress in the 1st Congressional District in 2008. Chavez, a Democrat, is running for a third consecutive term as the mayor of Albuquerque.
