Many felt due to a down turn in the economy that crime would increase, but it has done just the opposite.
I personally feel it's partly due to the fact that most people here during tough times, are far less likely to put up with crime, and in part this is likely due to good law enforcement that has actually targeted those that need targeting.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sheriff-crime22-2009sep22,0,7821877.story?track=rss
We’re getting similar numbers locally. Street crime reductions usually track with decreases in the 16-25 population.
Maybe some of our illegals are finding it hard to live in America and have gone home...hence a decrease in violent crime...just saying..
Is it wrong that I read the headline and thought, “Written by Captain Obvious”?
I don’t know where the LA Times has been, but street crime in Los Angeles is still high. Maybe they weren’t aware of the 4 officer involved shootings over the weekend, in your typical areas, Compton, Long Beach, etc. Maybe crime is down, but not in the ghetto areas
I prefer Sheriffs.
They seem a little more old school.
Also, don’t Sheriffs have the power to boot out Fedzilla?
(FEMA for example)
Or the illegals have spread out to states with lower unemployment and less developed methods of dealing with the problems they bring.
So L.A. has gone from being a “Combat Zone” to just being a “Police Action Zone” ?
I still doubt that it’s safe to walk the streets in South Central.
This is just like my hometown of Jackson Mississippi, the totally corrupted black police force is useless.
You want help...call the county Sheriff.
LACSD jurisdiction is one of the largest in the world.
I would look to the LAPD and the ajointing cities that have their own PD’s.
Having grown up in the area and worked with the LACSD, I can say they are the best, but they seem spread pretty thin in the suburbs at times.
Still, both they and the LAPD use field team tactics that are the finest anywere on earth. Very disiplined radio chatter with supervisor cars and deputy squads of 5 cars or more each in the field have got to be very intimidating to the bad guys.
Once they have you zeroed, there is no escape.
No wonder so many small town "hipsters" love to move to New York or places like Silver Lake in LA: the big city is now safer than the second and third tier "urban areas."