'We knew we were going to break the record': APD bracing for record homicides in 2021 Updated: 4:45 PM MDT Aug 3, 2021 "I do expect Albuquerque to break 100 this fall," Mayor Tim Keller Share Updated: 4:45 PM MDT Aug 3, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript WILL SHOW YOU WHEN AND WHERE COMING UP IN MY FORECAST. N:RO HAPPENING NOW. ALBUQUERQUE DETECTIV AREES INVESTIGATING TWO MORE HOMICIDES. BOTH HAPPENING EARLY THIS MORNING. LET’S GO LIVE TO ANCHOR SASHA LENNINGER. SASHA, WE NOW HAVE MORE HOMICIDES IN THE DUKE CITY THIS YEAR THAN LAST. >> YES. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATING 78 HOMICIDES IN THE MEANING 78 PEOPLE HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF A HOMICIDE. THAT NUMBER SOUNDS HHIG GIVEN THAT THE RATE IS 80 IN 2019. ETH CITY IS SAYING THEY WILL MORE THAN LIKELY SHATTER THAT RECORD THIS ARYE. >> WE’RE GOING TO BRK.EA WE KNEW WE WERE GOING TO BREAK THE RECORD. ALBUQUERQUE POLICE CHIEF HAROLD MEDINA AND MAYOR TIM KILLER PREDICTING THE DUKE CITY WILL HAVE A RECORD BREAKING YEAR WHEN IT COMETOS HOMICIDES. >> AND WE DO EXPECT THESE TRENDS TO CONTINUE. AND I DO EXPECT ABQ TO BRE 1AK00 THIS FALL. >> BOTH SAYING IT’S SOMETHING HAPPENING ACROSS THE NATION. THIS, AFTER TWO MORE HOMICESID EARLY TUESDAY MORNG.IN THE FIRST, AT 4:00 A.M., DOWNTOWN NEAR GOLD AND 7TH, WHERE A PERSON WAS FOUND DEAD INSIDE A CAR. THEN, TWO HOURS LATER. A POSSIBLE SHOOTING AT A MOTEL SIX ALONG AVENIDA CESAR CHAVEZ, WHERE COPS FNDOU A PERSON DEAD. >> ANOTHER HOTEL HOMICEID BETWEEN THE HOURS OF MIDNIGHT AND 5:00 IN THE MORNING AND THERE IS POSSIBLY NARCOTICS INVOLVED. >> IN ALL, ALBUQUERQUE POLEIC INVESTIGATING 78 HOMICIDES EIGHT WHICH THE DEPARTMENT SAYS MAY CHANGE AFTER THEIR INVESTIGATION BECAUSE THEY COULD BE ACCIDENTAL, JUSTIFIED, A DRUG OVERDOSE OR A NATURAL DEATH, BUT IF THIS NUMBER STANDS, IT IS HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR’S TOTAL OF 77, AND CLOSE TO THE RECORD SET IN 2019 OF 80 HOMICIDES. >> THE BOTTOM LINE IS THERE IS A LOT OF CRIME. THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON IN THIS PANDECMI LEADING TO THESE HOMICIS.DE >> CHIEF MEDINA NOT SCARED TO ADMIT HIS DEPARTMENT IS SHORT STAFFED. >> I MAY MAKE A DECISION TO GIVE HOMICIDE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES , BUT THAT MAY MEAN THAT SOME OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF OUR COURT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WHERE THEY WANTE MTO GIVE MORE PEOPLTOE THE ACADEMY OR INTERNAL AFFAIRS MAY HAVE TO BEN OHOLD AS WE TRY AND GET RESOURCES TO FIGHT CRIME IN THE CITY. >> THE CHIEF SAYS IT WILL TAKE SOME TEIM TO GET THOSE NUMBERS MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND GET HOMICIDES MOVING THAT Y.WA IN 2017 AUTOMOBILE THEFTS FOR THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE. THOSE NUMBERS ARE NOW MOVINING THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT IT TOOK YEARS. BACK TO YOU. RON: THANK YOU. THE HOMICIDE UNIT HAS ALMOST TRIPLED IN THE LAST FEW ARYES.