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.
What goes around comes around
Blue state, blue voters, blue ballers…enjoy…
A service buddy of mine has a daughter that lives in LA. She has a decent house and her part of the street it’s OK, but walk a block up to the commercial district and the homeless have taken up residence on the sidewalks in front of businesses, on wider traffic medians, under overpasses and bridges. It’s like third world conditions in these encampments and including disease being spread there. My friend was walking with his daughter to a coffee shop around the corner from her place and a homeless guy up ahead of them stopped and dropped his drawers and took a dump right there on the sidewalk!
There aren’t any really red cities. Urban vs. rural and suburban is the real divide between blue and red. Towns and the very smallest cities might be reddish, but not the larger urban areas.
Is there any common thread, any similarity in these events that might shed some light on why this is happening? Did somebody do something? Was it a SUV?
“Everything woke turns to sh!t.”
No you are upside down you mad cow for pushing the very insane Marxism responsible for this, now you are whining because it's biting you in your ample ass?
Banks get robbed because criminals know bank employees are trained to give up the money.
Also, banks are hesitant to put up bullet proof glass between tellers and customers...which is a mistake IMO and i suspect would mitigate many bank robberies.
So I don’t ask why banks get robbed....I ask why wouldn’t they?
An alarm starts blinking as I parse this sentence?
A 10 year old child taught basic law and order could have seen this coming.
If it weren't for family, I would be long gone from this socialist nightmare that used to be called, the California Dream.
So what will these people do? Wear 2 masks, continue to vote for Democrats, and make the word “unexpected” a mainstay of their vocabulary.
The only thing that disturbs me about this is that the jackasses who insisted upon it can move to another state where they will once again insist upon the same crap. Too bad California doesn’t institute the usual Marxist agenda of preventing people from leaving.
Utopian believing leftists have not only abandoned the rule of law, they have abandoned the concept of personal responsibility in any form. Children raised while being told that any failing of theirs is …. someone else’s fault… are not likely to have any kind of conscience.
As long as conservatives are safe...who cares?
I have been minimizing tips into the City of Atlanta proper for almost 18 months now, based on news analysis and some conversation with our police chief in my suburban city. It is important to realize that the population of the City of Atlanta is less than 10% of the population of the metro area. Many, many “Atlanta” (Metro) residents rarely go into the City proper. For some very good reasons.
A good example of the proverb "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
“Never seen anything like it”
Dudes and dudettes - you voted for it, and you won! Embrace the suck.
As we touched on, yesterday, there is no escaping the criminals (no matter where you live or how great your ‘security detail’) At last, even with sleep in their eyes,people are noticing.
I read it’s so bad there now that crooks are actually coming from out of state to rip off stores. They have a huge incentive, $950 is a lot of money so it’s only going to get much worse. It will be interesting to see how much longer the Marxists will have support.
That was my exact thought.
Wait til someone gets beat to death with their own pornographic sculpture.
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