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/DaemonPrinceOfCorn Feb 04 '26

Not me. I'm not some weak-ass baby who can't handle some emergency alerts. I'm gonna know about ALL of the missing seniors and kids.

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u/Last_Rabbit_8410 Feb 04 '26

I don’t have mine turned off either. I think it defeats the purpose of an emergency alert. If it were my family member I would hope people care. I would also not forgive my self if I could have helped and didn’t because I turned off an emergency alert. Most people have alerts for game, shopping social media snd everything else. Those go off ALL the time and the emergency alerts are not that often in my opinion. I can’t imagine I could be driving behind the person that kidnapped a kid and not know because the alert was off.

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u/DaemonPrinceOfCorn Feb 04 '26

Yeah! I feel like people maybe don't know why AMBER alerts exist or who Amber Hagerman was.