The National Guard is posting to Albuquerque, NM, in the middle of increasing youth crime

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In a recently carried out incident, the problem is highlighted in graphic details. The Bernalillo County's office published a drone video from an incident in February, in which two children aged 7 and 9 waved a loaded weapon. The police finally fired rubber flaps to scare them to drop the gun.

The children were not injured, but the police from Albuquerque says that the violence of teenagers is on the rise. You say you don't have the resources to stop it.

That is why they asked New Mexico's governor to send the national guard.

Now dozens of troops in the city are being used as quickly as this weekend. Soldiers will not make arrests or keep weapons. You will help support the police and to support community members in need of protection, including young people.

In the “Land of Enchantment”, the city streets of Albuquerque are anything but charming. Homeless light warehouses overloaded backgrounds, syringe lines and men sit on curb, tied up.

The chief of police at Albuquerque, Harold Medina, says that his officials have so far arrested almost 4,000 people this year.

“You are not the problem. The broken criminal justice system is the problem,” he said.

The crime seems to be widespread in Albuquerque. Newsnation came across a frontal collision at an intersection on which the suspect fled on foot. Eyewitnesses say they dropped drugs that were immediately taken up by others.

The police arrested the suspect -a suspected drug dealer with a long rap leaf -but this kind of activities is the reason why the chief of police from Albuquerque needs help from the National Guard.

Eighty members of the National Guard in New Mexico volunteered to protect the streets of Albuquerque. You have trained almost 300 hours and will start your street patrols at the end of this month.

Newsnation received access to her latest training through intervening in a moment of the crisis behind the scenes.

“It hits home and I hope this will help the community,” said Staff Sgt. Alfonso deocampo.

The supporting role of the wax members is limited, but their daily presence promotes local officials to focus on more urgent affairs, including the increase in youth crime.

According to the district prosecutor of the district prosecutor in Bernalillo, violent crimes among teenagers has shot 60% since 2022. District Prosecutor Sam Bregman said that his office has charged 46 different minors for murder in the past two years alone.

“It is incredible statistics and it is heartbreaking,” he said. “It goes in the absolutely wrong direction.”

In a very publicly public, the authorities say three youth frames in a stolen vehicle that is deliberately plowed in the 63-year-old cyclist Scott Habermehl and killed him. The oldest minor was charged as an adult, while the 13-year-old, who recently drove the vehicle, has completed a plea with prosecutors and is released from custody at the age of 21.

The third perpetrator is charged with murder when he turns 12 and could be condemned under similar conditions, said the there.

Bregman said that the outdated laws of the state of young people do not hold criminal teenagers into account and have not been updated since the nineties.

“I can't follow my way out of it,” he said. “This must be an entire community effort … We have to come together, recognize this as a problem and ensure that we build up in consequences.”

Habermehl's widow, who submits an explanation of the victim -mpact declaration last week, said she was not ready to be given. But she said she hopes that the state will find a way to make the streets safer.

More than half of the National Guard volunteers are locals from Albuquerque. They say they want to alleviate the concerns of their neighbors.