Posted on 12/28/2021 7:07:28 PM PST by blam
After years of rising crime in Los Angeles, elites in wealthy neighborhoods are finally panicking about the recent string of high-profile retail robberies and home burglaries. Experts say wealthy individuals are purchasing bulletproof cars, safe rooms, employing armed guards, and even constructing walls with barbed wire around their properties.
The issue of violent crime is nothing new to Los Angeles, but a spillover to upscale neighborhoods has put elites on edge. The Hollywood Reporter reports agencies who provide private security are seeing increasing demand for private patrols.
Since August, Rising S Company, a company that builds underground bunkers, has installed 13 safe rooms, nine safe doors, two underground bunker shelters, and two window fortifications across Brentwood Park, Beverly Park, and Paradise Cove. This compares with seven safe rooms in California in the last 2.5 years.
Estate manager Bryan Peele, president and founder of the L.A.-based Estate Managers Coalition, said his clients have “fully equipped safe rooms that they can live in for a few days, if necessary, that are completely hard-wired with phone cables, Internet, everything.”
One of Peele’s clients has three bulletproof cars and wears fake Rolexes. “This guy will take a $200,000 Rolex and copy it, using stainless steel and other metals, so it looks like the original but costs maybe $2,000-$3,000 per watch. So, in the event that it’s stolen, the client is out a lot less money,” he said.
Many upscale homes are installing more cameras, constructing fences with barbed wire, and employing 24-7 security details that will protect them from once their private jet touches down to their mansions.
Some people are even taking firearm and self-defense classes so they will know how to defend their family and or themselves in an emergency.
Violent crime rises from an alarming cocktail of criminal justice reforms. For instance, thieves can steal up to $950 in goods and receive a slap on the wrist, the equivalent of a traffic ticket. Criminal gangs have taken advantage of relaxed laws and have recently gone on a wave of retailer smash and grab robberies. There have also been high-profile robberies of elites.
When philanthropist Jacqueline Avant was murdered in her Beverly Hills mansion earlier this month, it was a wake-up call for the community.
“Almost immediately after the Avant shooting, it’s been crazy busy. We have increased operations in that area tremendously,” said Aaron Jones, CEO of International Protective Security. “I have a lot of regular VIPs; when people call, I get on the phone with them. We understand the urgency of what’s going on. It’s nonstop.”
Criminal justice reforms caused all this madness. Law and order needs to be restored or people will start moving out of the area.
Make all Whites, except for celebrities, move out of Los Angeles.
That will make Los Angeles safe, because according to celebrities, Whites are the source of all problems.
After doing that, celebrities will be able to leave their homes unguarded and their cars unlocked, and spend their days dancing on roads paved with vibranium.
A little ultra violence coming to a gated community near you.
Fn Preppers
What happened to walls don’t work.
“Guns for me, not for thee.”
Just hire Alec Baldwin, he’s good at shooting people.
Let's see how long it takes Hollywood elite sh*ts to realize letting criminals out of jail before their victims are out of hospitals is NOT a good idea...
Every time a celebrity gets robbed, an angel earns its’ wings.
Welcome to our world, hypocrites.
Hispanics are waking up and realizing that Democrats are corrupt. Might not make a difference in California but in states like Arizona, Colorado and Nevada, people will put an end to this BS.
Democrat “Criminal justice reforms caused all this madness. Law and order needs to be restored or people will start moving out of the area.”
Vote out all Democrats period.
Ignorance. Monumental ignorance and hubris.
The yahoos voted and campaigned for this and now they have no clue how it happened.
Cause and effect. Life’s greatest mystery to progressives.
Is this another Alec Baldwin session?
I have no problem with people spending their own money. But a 200,000 dollar Watch? I can lose that watch as easy as a $30 Timex.
As for the rest of us.... That’s why people buy guns.
I wonder if the presidents go on training missions in that. That would be a blast.
Oh, I got plenty o’ nuttin’
And nuttin’s plenty for me
I got no car, got no mule
I got no misery
De folks wid plenty o’ plenty
Got a lock on de door
‘Fraid somebody’s a-goin’ to rob ‘em
While dey’s out a-makin’ more
What for?
I got no lock on de door
Dat’s no way to be
Dey kin steal de rug from de floor
Dat’s okeh wid me
‘Cause de things dat I prize
Like de stars in de skies
All are free
Oh, I got plenty o’ nuttin’
And nuttin’s plenty for me
I got a gal, got my song
Got Hebben the whole day long
No use complaining
Got my gal, got my Lawd
Got my song
Oh, I got plenty o’ nuttin’
And nuttin’s plenty for me
I got the sun, got the moon
Got the deep blue sea
De foks wid plenty o’ plenty
Got to pray all de day
Seems wid plenty you sure got to worry
How to keep the debbel away
Away
I ain’t frettin ‘bout hell
‘Till de time arrive
Never worry long as I’m well
Never one to strive
To be good, to be bad
What the hell
I is glad I’s alive
Oh, I got plenty o’ nuttin’
And nuttin’s plenty for me
I got a gal, got my song
Got Hebben the whole day long
No use complaining
Got my gal, got my Lawd
Got my song
Sounds like South Africa - you may be really rich, but you have to live in a fortress.
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