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.
They can hire all the security they want but eventually if you’ve got a mob storming your home there’s nothing to stop them. This is what the liberals have created. May they dwell in their beautiful cesspool utopia they continually vote for!! Cher, Midler, hell pit stars may they enjoy! It’s guns a blazing for me thank you Lord for Texas!
Now that black thugs have figured out looted diamond rings re-sell for more than mouthwash from Walgreens - the sky's the limit.
Not that I'm saying white liberal 'elites' deserve the misery they allowed and encouraged on working class and middle class citizens and on the decent black people trapped in democrat run 'black communities'...
Oh wait, I kinda am saying that... In a few years it'll be dangerous for anyone to live in a blue state... and those people DON'T deserve it...
Following the “no police” woke rioters sounds good, until a thug breaks down your front door .
By in large low end habitual criminals have been too stupid and lazy to engage in crime far from home. They foul their own nests, as it were, almost as if their preference.
Shoplifting in upscale stores and neighborhoods was often from relatively wealthier thieves still operating close to home.
Your proverbial Wet Bandits, from Home Alone, who went far afield to tony neighborhoods to steal from them would have been rarer and somewhat of an exception.
Any transition from being a plague on their own neighbors to being a plague in general shows that people are graduating from being stupid and evil to being just evil.
Urban Bible:
“And on the 7th day Liberals looked upon what they had created and saw that it wasn’t any good.”
“Then they saith unto each other: this wilt work yet! It hath not been tried aright and we were poorly led in the past.”
Most crooks never understood the reply, “because that’s where the money is” when Sutton was asked.
Most crooks never understood the reply, “because that’s where the money is” when Sutton was asked.
apparently firing one round a second
They are destroying California so everyone moves out and then they can swoop in and buy everything up cheap. Chinese? Cartels? Our own greedy elites?
/sarc
I lived in Brooklyn in the 1970s. Spent the Summer of Sam in East Flatbush.
The moniker is out of date.
Now, Manhattan is where you live if you can’t afford Brooklyn.
“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind”
shaken the laws of the Universe,” said Oprah Winfrey, expressing grief over Avant’s killing via Twitter. “The world is upside down.”
You are one of the people who made them.
Enjoy your folly.
Be careful out there now y’hear.
I think this is Funny!! They have for thier entire lives fully supported the Party of Slavery, Jim Crow and the KKK, now they can’t figure out why there is no respect for human life or property... You can’t make this shit up!!
“ 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”
He’s going to give them a strong talking too and a good meal and then release them.
“Welcome to the party, pal”
Nice to see the elites dealing with the crap we have had to put up with for a decade or more.
Results for the past year show she is an Act Blue contributor. You know the person is a rich democrat by how stingy they are.
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