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A decade ago, L.A. County overwhelmingly approved Prop. 47, which turned some nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors. This November, the county overhauled it and supported Nathan Hochman for ...
However gang activity and crime did rapidly decline in the entire South Los Angeles region during the late-2000s-2010s until more recently in 2021, Los Angeles recorded the most homicides they’ve ever had in the city since 2006. The COVID-19 crisis was predominantly a reason for a spike in gang warfare and violent crime across South LA and ...
As Los Angeles prepares to expand its police force with a boost in spending and plans to hire hundreds more officers, new data show that crime in the city has dropped moderately in 2023.. Through ...
The SIS had been surveilling a group of four suspects wanted for robbing McDonald's restaurants in northwest Los Angeles, and was standing by to catch them as they were robbing a McDonald's in Sunland. When the suspects left the restaurant, SIS detectives blocked their car and, after reportedly spotting a gun, fired 24 shotgun rounds and 11 ...
The Black P. Stones in Los Angeles once consisted of two separate gangs; the City Stone Bloods, in the Mid-City/Arlington Heights area, and the Jungle Stone Bloods, in the area that was once known as "the Jungles" during the 1960s to the early 2000s, now officially known as Baldwin Village, on the West Side of South Central Los Angeles. [3]
Operation Cul-de-Sac (OCDS) was a Los Angeles Police Department effort to reduce violent crime, particularly drive-by shootings by gangs. [1] It consisted of installing concrete barriers, later iron fencing, to block fourteen residential streets to vehicle traffic. During the two years it was in effect, it substantially reduced violent crime.
A Los Angeles Police Department C.R.A.S.H. initiative that began in April 1987, Operation Hammer was a large scale attempt to crack down on gang violence in Los Angeles, California. A year later, the LA Times reported a double-digit drop in gang violence in parts of the city.