Recently I have tried to explain to some members that LA major crime is way down and has considerably less crime than most major cities in others states. Some just refused to believe.
Hmm, I susupect it was demographics. Los Angeles has changed quite a bit in recent years, and even the cheapest hovel costs $500,000.
In practice that means the lowest in 44 years, since there was unified city crime reporting in 1963.
But it is probably the lowest since the 50s and maybe the lowest since WWII.
I live in the LA area and find it to be very safe.
The VAST majority of the homicides are targeted. Rarely are innocent bystanders targeted these days.
The real reason is that the crack wars of the 90s have ended.
Is this the same Bratton that cleaned up NYC for which Giuliani is grabbing the credit?
Tougher sentencing/mandatory minimums finally showing results?
While there are exceptions in certain locales, murder is down nationally over years past. Unfortunately, the media tries to give us the sense that it is out of control and usually blames it on easy access to guns.
Why? Has everyone been killed off?
In 1994, William Bratton was appointed the 38th Commissioner of the New York City Police Department by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. He had success in this position, and introduced the CompStat system of tracking crimes, which proved successful in reducing crime in New York City and is still used to this day. A new tax surcharge enabled the training and deployment of around 5,000 new better-educated police officers, police decision-making was devolved to precinct level, and a backlog of 50,000 unserved warrants was cleared. The CompStat real-time police intelligence computer system was effectively introduced and integrated into police working. Police numbers were further boosted in 1995 when New York's housing and transit police were merged into the New York Police Department. Bratton left the job in 1996 after alleged personal conflicts with Giuliani.
In 1996, Bratton was featured in a business case prepared by James L. Heskett and published by Harvard Business School (Ref 9-396-293). Bratton's efforts to effectively turn around the New York City Police Department is used by many business schools as a tool for teaching organizational design and change.
"Big deal, that only means there are fewer people left to kill"
It's a regular Rwanda in certain sections of LA with the "ethnic" cleansing going on.
Of course that's just my opinion and I could be wrong.
Wait a minute.....this is good news. How can this be?(/sarcasm)
From where I sit, I can tell you that, while there are certain crimes where it is common to have an illegal perp, in the case of the truly bad crimes (murder, rape) it aint the illegals doing it, at least not in Jersey.
Recently I have tried to explain to some members that LA major crime is way down and has considerably less crime than most major cities in others states. Some just refused to believe.
Has anyone recently checked out Harbor City, San Pedro, Wilmington and Harbor Gateway?
Forty years ago, when Samuel W.Yorty, one of the last conservative Democrats, was mayor, Los Angeles enjoyed low unemployment as well as low housing costs—as noted by the pop singer Neil Diamond in his 1971 hit record, “I am, I Said.” Crime was also kept at a relatively low rate by an efficient police department led by tough, no-nonsense police chiefs such as William H. Parker, Tom Reddin, and Ed Davis.
After Tom Bradley, a left-leaning Democrat, ousted Yorty in 1973, one of his first acts was to cut funding for the police department. One doesn’t need a Ph. D. in social science to figure out what would follow.