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.
But-but-but... No more mean tweets! /s
Yes— the “management” of the woke cesspool— a heroin junkie from Chi-town who took over the Donahue show time slot and SOLD this black “wokism” to the afternoon tv middle class largely white female audience to produce..... WOKISM in the teachers, in the schools and... in the public school product now raging through their neighborhoods. Who’d a thunk it.
Oprah ain’t in LA— she’s on her vast tract estate in Hawaii- with her own public highway she has gated on both sides— such is her “wokism” .
This is all medieval— and there are MEDIEVAL solutions which can solve the immediate problem and re-institute proper law enforcement and judicial responsibility. Incarceration. But, for the moment- riot control. Shoot on sight.
Very few of the exasperated people who had "had enough" and voted for Rudy Giuliani in 1993 believed he could actually bring crime in NYC under control.
But he did.
And it was simple.
I'll tell you why!
Yes, bk1000. There is a common thread, but pointing it out gets people banned and cancelled.
Agreed. They have no concept of cause and effect.
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' Will the democrat black community flip out, loot and riot all over the country when the next low-life criminal is shot while committing crimes? Bet on it.
Can the democrat 'black community' get any more tacky and disgusting?
NOT ONE OTHER RACIAL GROUP IN THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY RIOTS AND LOOTS OVER THE DEATHS OF CRIMINALS.
We get the gubmint representatives we deserve. If we turn from God, He turns His face from us.
Here in Kanadahar (Canaduh?), True-dolt was re-elected. In Alberta, our love for money, over God, got us overlord ‘Justin’ Kenney, a totalitarian ‘CONservative’..
It is not a problem if it doesn’t affect you?
These people have so much privilege they thought they were immune to the vicissitudes of life.
A two by four to the side of the head (figuratively speaking) has been applied to their thinking?
Sorry, Blam.
#38 was meant for pocono pundit
So, the root of the matter is you allow people to do so many wrong things so they will vote you into power and then you pay security teams to protect you from your evil constituents. My only prayer is that you live long enough to hang.
Leftists prefer to look at the world with a childlike naivety that is pathological in nature.
Here’s an idea. Get yourself well armed and trained to shoot straight. Some high profile headshots to these violent dindus will send a message. Cops can’t do all your wetwork for you.
Awesome. I am hoping this continues and even accelerates.
I don’t wish them any ill, just that rich people make a lot of noise politically. Bringing the violent crime party to them might result in their calling for more police, a more strict judicial system, and perhaps even conceal carry. I am dreaming with the last one, but the point is, the wealthy and their political campaign donations go a long way to influencing policy.
As long as the poor are steeped in crime, nobody cares. Bring crime to the rich NIMBYs, and just maybe something will be done to address it, besides just hiring personal body guards.
I can only hope, because if not, we are going full boat Mad Max. America is becoming more feudal with the rich in their castles protected by hired troops, while the poor and middle class become prey for criminals. Victor Davis Hanson has a great article about it, calling it our “third worldization”.
Oprah done went to obamaumao’s “birfday” pahtee, fairly sure. Sans mask.
And shaking that big a@@ with David Geffen (queer entertainment mogul, and gay “yachtsman” who, after obamaumao left office, and left the COUP in operation, hosted a who’s who of guests on his super yacht off Fiji and in French Polynesia. Photos of all of them, oprah,springsteen, geffen, leonardo di caprio, robin roberts- the smollett ho tv host, and on and on. the “elite” fakes— along with obama, moochelle et al). obamaumao went on to go ski-boarding with Richard Virgin Airlines Branson— just a couple of “bros” banging elbows down for the “struggle”.
And then stealing National Heritage beachfront with his fixers in Hawaii— obamaumao’s vacay home in Hawaii, including archaeological bathing pool of the Hawaiian native Royalty. Cannot make this up- this “woke” “person of color” and corruptocrat Cloward Piven Marxist from a private Punahoe School upbringing as an Indonesian. Not American.
Hey Mr. DeLuca! Bet ya thought that giving yer shop that cutsie name, Brooklyn Project, was gonna give ya some street creds with the skate board crowd. LOL
But now yer havin’ to pack heat.....just like if you wuz REALLY in da hood.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
Ya just can’t make this stuff up!
quote “Garcetti said warehousing criminals in jails without rehabilitating them is not a solution.”
um... there is no “solution” to crime, you can only lock up the criminals to ensure everyone else’s safety.
If you tell liberal voters that they will get more of what they subsidize, you will be entertained as you watch them explode in paroxisms of spittle-flecked rage,hate and name-calling invective.
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