and both San Francisco and Los Angeles have elected district attorneys with strong reform agendas. However, those concerned about crime and those who believe liberal policies have contributed to its rise have grown more vocal.
At a Thursday press conference, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said more offenders should be locked up and questioned pandemic-related policies that have allowed many nonviolent arrestees to be released without bail. “They’re trying to move us backward,” said Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. “We don’t want to move backward; we want to move forward.”
For example, while the “follow-home” and “smash-and-grab” trends in L.A., including upticks in robberies in corridors like Melrose Avenue, have caused concern, they are not indicative of a citywide surge in property crime. Crime across Beverly Hills this year was down 2% as of the end of October. Violent crime in the past two years is up 23% compared with the two years prior, but the total number of such crimes remains tiny: There were just five robberies in the city in October, and homicides are rare.A crime spike in the 1990s led California to adopt policies that toughened sentences and increased incarceration.
“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.”
This is what happens when you are not tough on crime. Go ahead and keep rolling back tough sentencing laws and reducing prison populations. What a smart strategy 😂 LosAngeles gavinnewsom JoeBiden BidensAmerica crime
The animals hit la
Translation: We at the LA Times have never given a shit about crime or quality of life in this city with regards to working class families. But when one of our own elite in the form of a record executive gets murdered, then we have to start second guessing our endorsements.
awww, weren’t you the ones in love with useless GeorgeGascon and then got him elected as LADAOffice ?
LA Times has promoted and endorsed wanton acts of lawlessness through thick and thin.
You guys endorsed Gascon. Don’t act like there was no foresight.
Keep electing democrats.
Have never
Getting what you voted for. I hope you get it good and hard. Let them rob, rape, kill and loot! I don't care about your self-inflicted problems.
Shaken? It’s what they voted for.
seth rogan says it’s all good
When it gets to Malibu, maybe CALIFORNIAS WILL wake up to the Biden mistake
Report the truth. No crossroad, just danger
You didn’t think this was inevitable? Democrats embracing progressive (ie self-destructive) policies could only lead to rising crime. Get what you vote for.
We need Jackie Lacey back stat.
Democrat super majority to blame. Biden has done an awful job.
they say 'crossroads' as if the're in that ethical dilemma where you pull a lever to redirect a train headed towards the entire population of LA tied to the rails. Except its not a tough decision, because one track has everyone in LA tied to the rails, the other is empty
LA deserves this. They keep on voting Dems
Lib sewer. Enjoy
LA Times has endorsed every single one of the politicians and the policies that have caused this to happen. Good job supporting the total destruction and corruption of our city and making it a sunny Gotham.
ISN’T LIBERAL SOCIALISM JUST GRAND ?
From comments of this tweet we all know why LA down this road.
Black Lies Matter. Bring back Stop and Frisk and target the usual suspects.
Quick…release more criminals from jail. That should solve everything.
The LA Times endorsed Gascon. This is on you 😡
Quality democrats running that city into the ground. But according to your DA, most of these are crimes
nice, more copaganda
Why you gotta go anywhere. If you stand there and never take either road you'll be alright.
There is no way i would ever live in California.
“More concerning is violent crime. Homicides are up 46.7% compared with 2019, while shooting victims are up 51.4%, according to police data. As of the end of November, there had been 359 homicides in L.A. in 2021.” Hint: murders are reported; many other crimes go unreported! LA
If it bleeds it leads.
Lmao, you love to see it
People vote for soft on crime permissives then wonder why crime is rampant They're not willing to change their thinking in electing tough on crime candidates They hold onto weak leadership as loyalty to a stringent ideology not law and order. Well?
Hopefully they’re wearing masks. It would be really irresponsible if they weren’t.
Defund the police, continue no bail, and re-elect Gascon. These are the only solutions to the crime crisis in LA.
It’s like when you tell cops they can’t do their jobs, crime goes out of control.
Sethrogen why did you leave LA again?
Amend the law to permit shooting to defend strong-arm destruction of property & theft, as well as rioting & looting, and things will change
Good for you la you deserve all you get
peterjhasson
Law enforcement and prosecution decisions should not be based on race. They should be based on facts and public safety. Stop acting like people aren’t a threat until convicted. Spend more $ on identifying and remedying cases where there actually is a miscarriage of justice.
vOtE bLuE
Bring back mass incarceration!
Ah, progressive governance always leads to such ‘progress’ lmao.
Thanks for this needed coverage. Garcetti the city of angels needs yoir leadership.
Liberal run city with liberal laws pushed by the politicians in charge. No surprise to the intelligent.
Brazen crimes are going to only get worse as long as you’ve got more have nots than haves.
80 people form groups to storm and loot department stores and violent crimes are going up. Tell me again how I don't need large capacity magazines? What happens when 80 people figure out your small house has more $ then a department store and it's an easier target? 🦆 your laws.
Get strapped
'they may be 'brutal' and 'brazen', but the more important question that should be asked is 'are the accused proportionally represented in terms of ethnicity? jails must look like the rest of society too''--george gascon
WHO is OVERWHELMINGLY COMMITING the CRIME? (The Looting Videos appears to be one Demographic) ARREST - CONVICT - PRISON The Liberal Media can’t Figure this Out? The FACTS Remain Unreported Because they Prove the MEDIAs Past Reporting was FAKE
You voted for Garcetti, Newsom and Gascon so live with it.
“The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe,” declared Oprah Winfrey, expressing her grief over Avant’s killing to her 43 million Twitter followers. LATimes
We need real public safety measures instead of mass incarceration which has kept many like my brother in prison for excessive lengths of time/wrongfully convicted
You put your fear mongering behind a paywall?
Smug GOP all think they have Jews, women, gays, trans and nonwhite populations at the end of their guns, with the CAPTURED dark money SCOTUS cued to take away all our rights and make us a 'Christian nation'. Any diminution of our collective rights is ONE STEP TOO FAR.
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