(Not that it ever was.)

 

Is it just me, or media coverage, or is Lubbock becoming a crime-ridden, unsafe city? I think we've had 10 murders so far this year. Our high was 16 murders in 2004. Funny, I don't remember being worried back in '04 or feeling like Lubbock was becoming unsafe, but now, I do. Perhaps it's because two of this year's murders happened about three blocks from my house. Perhaps it's because you can't turn on the local news without hearing about crime. Today, for instance, at 5:30 this morning I was lying in bed hearing about shots fired on 39th and Q, a robbery, and another stabbing.

 

Perhaps part of it is the recent muder that happened in Southwest Lubbock...a good neighborhood where random murders aren't supposed to happen. Anytime you have a murder of an affluent white man in Lubbock, increased media coverage follows. We haven't heard too much about the other nine Lubbock murder victims this year.

 

I have seen two dead deer along I-27 out toward the strip. Since when were there deer in Lubbock? Are hunters dumping them? Am I hallucinating? Or are there really deer in Lubbock now?? Hmmm...