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.
These spoiled rich types used to getting everything fail to understand security or police will NEVER protect them in a real life or death situation.
They’re “just doing a job” and will escape first chance they get
With a moat.
And the alligators in the moat are not your friends.
Regards,
I suspect rather that the security guards (= mercenaries) are going to tell their "masters," "Now go for a walk!"
Regards,
No, they will "turn the tables" on the spoiled rich types and set themselves up as the new "masters" of their "secret fortresses."
Their erstwhile masters will be forced to "hit the bricks."
Regards,
Wow, California is becoming just like Mexico and Central America where property owners have barbed wire fences on their property perimeter walls and private security guards to protect life. Wonder what caused that? Maybe bringing the residents of those third world sh*tholes en mass as the new population? Good luck with that!
Wow, California is becoming just like Mexico and Central America where property owners have barbed wire fences on their property perimeter walls and private security guards to protect life. Wonder what caused that?
Corrupt Government officials and drugs, same as Mexico.
Just hire Alec Baldwin, he’s good at shooting people
I for one stand behind Alec Baldwin. I sure as hell won’t stand in front of him.
Armored cars have been very popular in Mexico for decades.
Got my first pair of glasses three years ago. Spent $300 and lost them in the woods(I think) a couple of months later. Just finally replaced them with a $35 pair from the web.
Ain’t liberalism fun Moe?.
But will all the leftists doing these things, finally admit that gun owners, especially RIGHT WING gun owners, are RIGHT,and that Hollywood leftists are WRONG, about guns, and finally admit their hypocrisy, regarding guns, crime, and their million dollar security????
NEVER!!!!
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