Posted on 12/05/2021 7:11:04 AM PST by blam
After two years of rising crime in Los Angeles, residents of upscale neighborhoods are finally starting to freak out after a spate of ‘flash mob‘ lootings at high-end retail stores have been accompanied with a disturbing increase in violent crimes committed in the suburbs, according to the LA Times.
Private security officers guard the Beverly Hills home where Jacqueline Avant, the wife of music producer Clarence Avant, was shot and killed Wednesday. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
Crews of burglars publicly smashing their way into Los Angeles’ most exclusive stores. Robbers following their victims, including a star of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” and a BET host, to their residences. And this week, the fatal shooting of 81-year-old Jacqueline Avant, an admired philanthropist and wife of music legend Clarence Avant, in her Beverly Hills home.
…these incidents have sparked a national conversation and led to local concern about both the crimes themselves and where the outrage over the violence will lead.
“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,” said Oprah Winfrey, expressing grief over Avant’s killing via Twitter. “The world is upside down.”
The Times notes that while overall crime rates within Los Angeles remain far below the notoriously violent 1990s, much of it has been concentrated in poor communities – so it receives virtually no attention. Now that crime has “crept up in wealthier enclaves and thrust its way to the center of public discourse” across the city.
Turning point?
In 2020, polls showed that California voters largely supported criminal justice reform, as well as rolling back tough sentencing laws to reduce prison populations without nary a thought to how it might affect the crime rate. Now, those concerned about crime and blame liberal policies for its rise are growing more vocal.
For others, it’s been a serious wake-up call.
“I have never seen anything like it,” said Dominick DeLuca, owner of the Brooklyn Projects skateboard shop on Melrose Avenue where burglaries and robberies have seen a sharp enough spike in recent months that he’s now carrying a gun to work. “In the last two years, I have been broken into three times.”
On Thursday, Mayor Eric Garcetti and LAPD Chief Michael Moore advocated for locking offenders up, and questioned several pandemic-related policies that put nonviolent arrestees back on the street without bail.
Moore said arrests had been made in several high-profile “smash-and-grab” burglaries but lamented that the suspects had all been released pending trial. Garcetti said warehousing criminals in jails without rehabilitating them is not a solution, but neither is ceding the streets to repeat offenders.
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón, whose progressive policies around prosecution and sentencing many blame for the uptick in crime, was notably absent at the press conference but said through his office that he is working closely with law enforcement partners to hold perpetrators accountable for such brazen crimes. -LA Times
According to LAPD data through Nov. 27, property crime is up 2.6% YoY, but is down 6t.6% from 2019, while robberies are up 3.9% YoY and down 13.6% from 2019. Burglaries are down 8.4% from last year and 7.7% from 2019. Car thefts, meanwhile, are up nearly 53% vs. 2019.
The difference? Rich people are now getting hit, so officials are officially concerned.
What’s more, violent crime is way up – with homicides jumping 46.7% and shootings up 51.4% vs. 2019. As of the end of last month, there were 359 homicides year-to-date, compared with 355 in all of 2020. That said 2008 was LA’s deadliest year with 384 homicides.
Read the rest of the report here.
I don't think they're smart enough for such in middle-class neighborhoods. They could have good intel on who has valuables in home from cleaning persons and repair contractors, etc, but not who is willing to kill them. Again, I'm not opposed to them trying. Let's see who actually has the cojones to try and those who will actually defend their homes/neighborhood. I and the wife have our defense plan.
Just move to red cities in deep red states and be done with it. Follow Elon Musk the heck out of California.
They’re moving to TX, in droves. :-(
Many will continue to vote for the carpola that got LA into the fine mess it is in.
“These people are getting exactly what they voted for.”
When you phrase it like that it’s a fallacy of composition. There are many Californians, including some on this very thread (not to mention the owner of the forum) who didn’t vote that way.
Next thing you know, this crime wave will reach areas of Santa Barbara, maybe even the suburbs such as Montecito.
Montecito, Ca. is where many of the very rich celebrities live; people such as Oprah, Rob Lowe, Ariana Grande and Ellen DeGenneres. Is nobody safe? //
We live in North Dallas but we have a small condo in Orange CA and I go out about once a month to ride my motorcycle and for memories of growing up there.
For the first time ever a few weeks ago, sitting at a traffic light on Chapman just east of the 57, near Anaheim Stadium, a homeless meth zombie started yelling at me then proceeded to charge towards me across the intersection. I was able to get maneuver and ride off.....I have never seen anything like it. It’s a third world hell hole. I am probably going to sell the condo. It’s no fun anymore. It’s dangerous. I can’t imagine being a single woman out there. I can’t imagine that.
Here is a link to a crime map for the Atlanta metro area. The City of Atlanta is the worst, of course, but formerly safe areas like Roswell, Sandy Springs, and Norcross are being hit with crime sprees. Carjackings or attempted carjackings at gas stations in Gwinnett are commonplace.
https://crimegrade.org/violent-crime-atlanta-ga-metro/
Indeed. Attack and defund the police. Then put in place policies where punishment is basically a revolving door for criminals. Violent criminals. We saw it in Wisconsin last week. And now it has come to Beverly Hills. And then they feign surprise at what their policies have wrought.
Poor?
Code word for???
Thugs finally figured out you can steal better stuff in rich communities for the same amount of effort.
Note to Wall Street ‘firms’:
Buy GUNS for all your employees!
It appears like they are getting bit in the ass!
Wait for it...
Is your service buddy moving his daughter out of that neighborhood?
Good link.
Too bad your friend didn’t have a pellet gun to pop that bum in the butt.
If people would start popping these bums, this nonsense would come to a screeching halt.
Like Mike Tyson would say, everyone has a plan until punched in the face.
All these grand socialist plans.... and bingo, reality hits
NO then they will bring their warped liberal ways to Red states. Stay in CA and let the sewer rats have them.
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