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‘Never Seen Anything Like It’: Los Angeles Residents Stunned As Violent Crimes Creep Into Wealthier Communities
Nation & State ^ | 12-5-2021

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
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1 posted on 12/05/2021 7:11:04 AM PST by blam
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To: blam
‘Never Seen Anything Like It’ ...

Sure you have, on TV.

2 posted on 12/05/2021 7:13:19 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: blam
Just move to red cities in deep red states and be done with it. Follow Elon Musk the heck out of California.
3 posted on 12/05/2021 7:15:05 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: blam

Round and round

What goes around comes around


4 posted on 12/05/2021 7:15:13 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: blam

Liberals are starting to live in the Utopia they so desired and are finding out it’s actually a crime ridden cesspool.


5 posted on 12/05/2021 7:16:03 AM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: blam

You get what you vote for.


6 posted on 12/05/2021 7:16:14 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: SmokingJoe

This is hat happens when you vote Democrat.


7 posted on 12/05/2021 7:16:57 AM PST by DownInFlames (P)
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To: blam

They are the authors of this insanity. I’m glad it’s hitting them. I hope it does even more.


8 posted on 12/05/2021 7:17:06 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Steely Tom

Beginning to resemble a little Clockwork Orange action.


9 posted on 12/05/2021 7:17:12 AM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge an )
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To: blam
“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.”

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Hey orcah....this is Leftism/Wokeism in practice. It is the inevitable result of what happens when you abandon the Rule of Law.

Criminals don't care about how much someone has "given or shared"....all they want to do is to take their stuff.

This is why we have the police, courts, laws and prisons.

And who bets orcah has private security at her place yet she will one of the first to deny you your Second Amendment Rights and further...that she stands with blm and the Defund the Police movement.

10 posted on 12/05/2021 7:17:17 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: SmokingJoe
Just move to red cities in deep red states and be done with it. Follow Elon Musk the heck out of California.

Elon Musk is a South African so he speaks from experience and knew it was time to get out of California.

11 posted on 12/05/2021 7:18:48 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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“...overall crime rates within Los Angeles remain far below the notoriously violent 1990s...”

Could it be that the cops just aren’t bothering to arrest people and people aren’t bothering to report crimes they know won’t be investigated?


12 posted on 12/05/2021 7:19:08 AM PST by euram
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To: blam

Would love to know if the victims of these home invasions voted for Biden, Garcetti and if they contributed money to Democrats.


13 posted on 12/05/2021 7:19:46 AM PST by allendale
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“The world is upside down.” Yes Oprah, the world IS upside down, when elected officials care more about the criminals than the victims, and George Soros buys the District Attorney offices for the sole purpose of breaking down American civilization. I can hardly wait for this crime wave to hit Montecito...then we’ll have some really mad rich and famous people.


14 posted on 12/05/2021 7:20:11 AM PST by LizzieD
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To: blam
Well, are they not the ones supporting those calling to eliminate or drastically reduce the funding of the police?

Let them experience first hand what that really means and the consequences they bring.

Furthermore, are they not the same people who vote for these DA's that are soft on crime, and even softer on the criminals?

Sorry, hard to feel sympathy for you. You have 3 more years of this at least unless you open your damn eyes and see that the leftist policies are the cause. Otherwise, if will only get worse if you keep supporting insanity and criminals to protect you.

15 posted on 12/05/2021 7:23:51 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: hardspunned
Beginning to resemble a little Clockwork Orange action.

Yeah, a little horrorshow ultraviolence.

16 posted on 12/05/2021 7:24:33 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

‘Never Seen Anything Like It’ ...

You will from now on.


17 posted on 12/05/2021 7:25:33 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: blam

Well duh. Why wouldn’t criminals rob wealthier communities? Mobster Willie Sutton had it figured out:

“When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton simply replied, ‘Because that’s where the money is.’”


18 posted on 12/05/2021 7:26:08 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: SmokingJoe
Just move to red cities in deep red states and be done with it.

I don't want them in my neighborhood.

They made this mess. They need to fix it. And it can be fixed.

19 posted on 12/05/2021 7:26:29 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024.)
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To: DesertRhino
They are the authors of this insanity. I’m glad it’s hitting them. I hope it does even more.

My haunch is they are too stupid to realize this and will continue to support politicians that created this mess.
20 posted on 12/05/2021 7:27:47 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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