Inside New Mexico's 'War Zone' - The Most Frightful Neighborhood In America

Nick billions are being spent on homeless and drug addictive folk, some money goes to the problem most goes to politicians pockets!

I'll bet the people that are geeking out are Not illegals, they're Americans

People don't even know what they want anymore now because they are so intoxicated on drugs and alcohol. They lost all good judgements and critical thinking logic skills if they ever even had them to begin with after they started using drugs and alcohol in excess to the point of addictions.

I’m from Baltimore. It’s sad to say that those people can get clean for a week and people will praise them and give them a job. I got children and don’t do know drugs but can’t get a job. How come drug addicts get jobs but people who have children and don’t do drugs cant? Why do people get praised for not doing the drugs anymore but people who never did them don’t get praised at all?

Some of them are so corrupt themselves that they use the prostitutes themselves. Gil Gallegos used to be the police chief there and made sure they put the drugs they just took off the streets went right back out again so more crime was committed and then the cycle would just continue on.

I see your anxiety: I feel anxious for you! This is the first time I think you’ve looked so nervous at a location!

They are so **** up on drugs they think they are going to be eaten by the walls and floors around them that they start tearing up the whole housing they are in because they want to kill the voices that they hear and they think are actually real people. Hallucinations.

Oh yes that's the one that her husband was killed by one of the other homeless clients. That's why they'd closed down. Saw that on national news segment one time where we live now.

A lot of those places lost or were threatened with the loss of funding if Trump took office back in 2024 during the election year and they left before they were out of funding. RFK was a huge influence on mental health funding budget cuts for those types of programs and projects so they gave up and just pulled out overnight before they were in legal trouble with the lack of funding for keeping them going.

They throw pairs of shoes over the power lines for various different reasons. Usually indicate drug/trap house. Other reasons too. Albuquerque NM thing.

War zone is when back in the 1980's gangs fought over the turf.

Holy cow that is even worse than when I lived there back in 2000 to 2008. I barely can recognize Central Ave now. It's completely changed so much. Castle Megastore is still there, but Walmart and Bank of the West is not? That's crazy! 😮

Thank you for this. I'm glad it is being documented.😢

Used to live in NM. So true. A lot of corruption goes on in NM too. Been going on since I can remember too.

I miss the old Nick, the Nick who was super-friendly to the less fortunate. It seems the new Nick fears the new order, United Bums of America (UBA).

Abq used to much cleaner and less crime people just had different look on life I guess.

I have sent this to the reps... great work, and true journalism. No local media outlet or fake news journalists would dare touch this. What you do is extremely important, so keep up the great work.

Liberal state…not hard to understand why it is this way.

You should have visited other parts also

Liberal?? How bout your southern red states asshole?

Dang it. I wish that I would have known that you were here. This is actually clean compared to last year. 100th anniversary of RT 66 coming up and there will be a lot of meda coverage. They cranked up our house taxes and promised to turn a large hospital on Gibson into a housing and rehab facility. Our taxes get higher but it's been years and no homeless facilities. SMH 😣

You’ll hear gun shots around the city

Home Sweet Home.

America, what’s going on??

Some homeless are working poor and can not afford a place if your single adult man. Shelters may not be a great option because of theifs and violence. The street is worse. Their must be and alternate way out. Do not government programs they don't help at all or very little.

these drug addicts want to live in this trash dump, there is no hope 4 them.

You have no clue what you're talking about.

I pedaled all through the war zone from19 to 24 rent doubled the Wal Mart on San Mateo and Central closed due to crime my rent and hitting 60 time to move along

My guess is that the local politicians wanted a place where anything goes, so other parts of the city can be cleaner and safer? If they clean up the “War Zone”, the people will move to another area and continue there.

You didn’t mention that this is right next to Kirtland Air Force Base and Sandia National Labs!!! If you dont know about Sandia Labs look it up. One od the most highly secured place in the nation. Explain that!!!

It’s crazy, I’ve lived here (35 miles south of Albuquerque) for 5 years. I have never felt unsafe. I even worked in the “War Zone” for a year. The homeless population is really bad, but they leave you alone. It seems that the crime is amongst them for the most part.

I'm in Rio Rancho which is just across the river from Albuquerque and my kid lives close to this area. The liberal government doesn't seem to care. They just care about protectiny illegals.

i live two driveways away wish i new you where in town i woud have given you a front row seat of what we go through i have all the cameras up 24 7

Trump's America everyone. This is what you voted for.

They should put a curfew to prevent criminals, drug trafficking and endangering the community,

Most people in Albuquerque never see this. We live in nice neighborhoods where we go on walks with our children and pets and only worry about seeing a coyote. Theyve given up on the war zone.

Build poor farms and teach how to feed yourself.

We all know Republicans state runned don't commit crimes. Only trump with his 34 felonies.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Any Blue State City is WORSE than Somalia! If you keep voting for Leftist ☭ democRats you will ALWAYS live in a crime ridden 3rd world poverty stricken filthy ghetto! 95% of gun violence in this country happens in Leftist ☭ DemocRat controlled city's with strict gun laws like Chicago, New York or Detroit by people who vote DEMOCRAT!!  DemocRat politicians DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU! They ONLY care about power and money for themselves!

With Leftist, ☭ democRats it's "vote blue no mater who" Forget the fact that your communist baked potato candidate can't even find his way off a stage, complete a sentence, has late stage dementia, or hates the USA so much that stoped construction of our border wall allowing 8 million more illegal aliens into our country so we can give them FREE everything that WE have to pay for, he committed treason by giving our enemies the Taliban with 86 billion of our best military equipment etc. etc.

Confronting libs with facts is about as useless as trying to explain quantum mechanics to a tree stump.

No it gets worse by the day! I live in ABQ’s NE Heights and travel through this neighborhood often!

I'll say 20 years ago the war zone wasn't great but it was nothing like it is now. You could drive around the SE heights and business weren't closing down all the time. What Lomas is now is what Central used to be in the 2000s. After 2014 when the Feds starting investigating APD and police resignations started occurring en mass is when the city started getting a real crime problem. They need to bring back mental institutions. Stop being so generous with these people they will slice your throat if you give them a chance.

As someone who grew up in the 'Burque, this is so so sad to see. It didn't used to be like this. Albuquerque had so much potential and it could have been vibrant and a tourist destination like Denver. After the 2008 housing crash, there were empty buildings left half-built downtown and the cartels started moving in, it's like the city has lost it's soul and what we're seeing is the ghost of Albuquerque.

Detroit lost its crown to Albercracky

We couldn’t leave our car unattended when shopping anywhere in Albuquerque.

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