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It’s not clear what reforms the concerns about crime in the Los Angeles area will lead to — if any.

California Watts leaders, shaken by shootings, tell residents to avoid large gatherings for rest of 2023 Jill Replogle (20 December 2012). "For Boat Captain, Rescuing Maritime Smugglers Is Part Of The Job". KPBS . Retrieved 28 December 2012. In Beverly Hills, police stress that crime is rare — and killings like Avant’s even more so. Police Chief Mark Stainbrook said that despite recent incidents, Beverly Hills remains one of the safest cities in the nation. If I didn’t watch TV, I don’t think I would have noticed the area was more dangerous,” she said. “I don’t think it is.” Demaris, Ovid (1981). The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno. Bantam Books. ISBN 0-8129-0955-0.

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Jonathan Simon, a criminal justice professor at UC Berkeley’s law school and author of “Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear,” said it is unlikely that crime concerns will completely derail the progressive criminal justice reform movement that began with Floyd’s killing. Cannon, Lou; Lee, Gary (May 2, 1992). "Much Of Blame Is Laid On Chief Gates". The Washington Post . Retrieved November 22, 2018. It’s the 1980s and Los Angeles is a city swarming with corruption, Narcotics, and crime. The unique case has presented itself, however it needs a detective who isn’t afraid to do what’s necessary. If that’s you, then join the L. A. P. D. And solve crimes under the leadership of James Bradley! We still have far too much gun violence in this city,” Moore told the Board of Police Commissioners at its Oct. 3 meeting. The city had also experienced an increase in thefts, he said, a problem he has linked to a boom in online retail marketplaces that resell stolen goods. “This an area where our focus continues to be,” he said.Poston, Ben; Mather, Kate (3 September 2015). "Dramatic rise in crime casts a shadow on downtown L.A.'s gentrification". Los Angeles Times. On Friday at Beverly Hills’ Roxbury Park, a handful of child-care providers sat together over lunch. One woman said she had moved her walking schedule earlier each day to feel more secure. The Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums ( C.R.A.S.H.) was a specialized unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) tasked with combating gang-related crime. CRASH was established in South Central in 1979 to combat the rising problem of gangs in the city. Each of the LAPD's 21divisions had a CRASH unit assigned to it, whose primary goal was to suppress the influx of gang-related crimes in Los Angeles, which came about primarily from the increase in illegal drug trade. [30] [31] You go to places like Watts and Boyle Heights, and they will actually tell you that it’s safer,” Leap said. “When they show the films of Nordstrom being broken into ... there is a sort of ‘Oh my god, that’s not supposed to happen here.’ Whereas if there’s a smash-and-grab at the Food4Less in Pacoima, then there’s the sense of, ‘Well, it’s a high-crime area.’ ” It is a discourse defined by glaring differences of opinion and, at times, a yawning disconnect between the perception of local crime and the reality on the ground.

Prosecutors alleged the defendants began killing people after one of their own was gunned down on the evening of Sept. 26. Brown and another Kitchen Crip were outside Brown’s home on 116th Street when a member of a Bloods gang shot at them, according to court records. Brown wasn’t hit, but the other man — identified in coroner’s records as Cole Walker Haywood, 39 — was killed. Ruben Urcis, 90, a 42-year resident of Beverly Hills who walks twice a day along the Beverly Gardens Park walkway, said he was not disturbed by the recent string of high-profile crimes, which he didn’t consider anything new. At noon Nov. 15, according to court records, Mario Gonzalez was driving his car, with Tony Gonzalez and Padilla Yates as passengers, when he spotted Sutton, whom he believed was in a rival Bloods gang. The Rampart scandal involved widespread police corruption in CRASH in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers either assigned to or associated with the unit were implicated in various forms of misconduct, including unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering up of evidence of these activities. [32] People might just be noticing this, but it’s happened before,” he said, noting that his wife was robbed at gunpoint of a white-gold Rolex more than a decade ago outside their garage. Now she wears a “standard wristwatch of no value,” he added.Alex Alonso, a geography professor and gang consultant for Los Angeles district courts, said there’s no denying the impact that crime can have on communities, but he finds it ironic that the current conversation ignores the fact that homicides and gun violence are on the decline, even with the LAPD down more than 1,000 officers from a decade ago. Outside the South Los Angeles apartment building where Mario and Tony Gonzalez lived, a man who declined to give his name but said he was their uncle confirmed they were brothers and members of the Kitchen Crips. Despite the overall drop in shootings, the victims of recent firearm assaults have included a young Crenshaw High School basketball star, a gang outreach worker barbecuing at a park, and a 16-year-old boy who was killed in a shooting at a park in Granada Hills that also left a 2-year-old wounded. Dawsey, Darrell (August 19, 1990). "To CHP Officer Who Sparked Riots, It Was Just Another Arrest". Los Angeles Times. Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles) | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute". kinginstitute.stanford.edu. June 12, 2017 . Retrieved 2018-10-22.

Monkkonan, Eric H "Homicide in Los Angeles, 1827–2002", The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 36, No. 2 (Autumn 2005), pp.167–183, The MIT Press In 2015, it was revealed that the LAPD had been under-reporting crime for eight years, making the crime rate in the city appear much lower than it really is. Approximately 14,000 assaults went unreported as "minor offenses" rather than violent crimes. [4] Additionally, recent years have seen more crime in the increasingly gentrified downtown area. [5] However, these inaccuracies do not affect the general downward trend in crime in Los Angeles. [4] A string of recent controversies have put to a test LAPD Chief Michel Moore’s quest to get his department into shape before stepping down in the next year or two. In his weekly crime briefings to the Board of Police Commissioners, Moore has noted positive gains, but the LAPD chief has also warned that gun violence remains a major concern in a city awash in firearms; the number of shootings is still higher than in the pre-COVID years, he said.Later that day, after someone shot at a house in the Kitchen Crips’ territory, Muratalla was “involved” in a shooting at a liquor store in a neighborhood claimed by the Swans, a Bloods gang, prosecutors alleged. a b PBS Independent Lens Documentary "Crips and Bloods" Made in America, Produced by Baron Davis, Directed by Stacy Peralta and Written by Stacy Peralta and Sam George Norma Guzman, who has worked for two decades as a babysitter in various parts of L.A., said Beverly Hills does not compare to other areas in terms of the amount of crime.