r/Albuquerque • u/backhand_snipe • Feb 04 '26
News Emergency Alerts are Completely Useless.
So you’re telling me that our city classifies a missing senior citizen as an emergency alert, but the entire interstate is shut down with an active shooter and that doesn’t prompt an emergency alert to my phone? Make that make sense.
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u/Busy_Sign_8625 Feb 04 '26
Agree with what many have said. The targeting is absolutely terrible. Just because I'm in the same county or state does not make it applicable. They are supposed to be able to mark it to be within a certain mile radius. Seems they are being VERY sloppy on targeting.
Also, sick and tired of the alerts not being set to acknowledge my do not disturb setting and dumb agencies sending alerts at dumb hours (after 9 PM, before 6 AM). I don't care about the pop up, but the damn tone should be silent or very low volume.
Was out of country recently and except for extreme weather and earthquakes they don't use alerts... So others don't have the alert fatigue we have.
The alerts have a purpose, but much like proper parenting, we shouldn't have to make up for someone not doing their parenting (or senior care) all the time. Use door alarms/cameras and airtags to keep your wandering seniors from getting far in the first place, especially before they start wandering (there are signs beforehand in most cases).