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In 2012, the Los Angeles Police Department reported that crime had declined in the city for the 10th consecutive year. [1] In 2013, Los Angeles reported 296 homicides in the city proper, which corresponds to a rate of 6.3 per 100,000 population—a notable decrease from 1980, when the all time homicide rate of 34.2 per 100,000 population was ...
Los Angeles: 1922-02-01: Director of 59 silent films shot in the back at his apartment, unsolved, subject of frenzy of sensationalist press coverage [154] 3: Murder of Marion Parker: Los Angeles: 1927-12-17: 12-year-old girl abducted and murdered, billed as "the most horrible crime of the 1920s" by the Los Angeles Times [155] [156] 4: Brooke ...
In 2010, Los Angeles reported 293 homicides. [6] The 2010 number corresponds to a rate of 7.6 per 100,000 population. Murders in Los Angeles have decreased since the peak year of 1993, when the homicide rate was 21.1 (per 100,000 population).
John Floyd Thomas Jr. (born July 26, 1936) [1] is an American serial killer, serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murders of seven women in the Los Angeles area during the 1970s and 1980s. Police suspect Thomas committed 10 to 15 more murders. [2] [3] [4]
By 2009, crime in Los Angeles had declined, and detectives were assigned to look into cold cases to increase the department's clearance rates. In Van Nuys, Jim Nuttall and Pete Barba reviewed the Rasmussen file and found it worth pursuing.
Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles have charged nine alleged gang members with committing six homicides, multiple shootings and various other crimes in a pocket of South L.A. hit hard by the ...
Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles: 2020-02-19: 1 Rapper shot; arrests made 2020 boogaloo murders: Oakland: 2020-05-30: 2 3: Attacks on law enforcement during the George Floyd protests. Aguanga shooting: Aguanga: 2020-09-07: 7 Unsolved case, investigated by police if related to a marijuana grow 2021 San Jose shooting: San Jose: 2021-05-26: 10 Mass ...
The Wonderland murders, also known as the Four on the Floor Murders [1] or the Laurel Canyon Murders, are four unsolved murders that occurred in Los Angeles on July 1, 1981. [2] It is assumed that five people were targeted to be killed in the known drug house of the Wonderland Gang , three of whom—Ron Launius, William "Billy" Deverell, and ...