Crime Down In L.a. (Los Angeles, San Diego: violent crime, schools, places to live)

[TheRealAngelion]

L.A. crime decreases for 5th year
The city's statistics run counter to trends for the nation as a whole and elsewhere in the region.

See link to LA Times for full article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-crime27dec27,0,812846.story?coll=la-home-headlines (broken link)

[fastfilm]

Then why do we have to clean off more and more graffiti from our immediate property with each passing year? Maybe you could come up here from San Diego and help us out.

[TheRealAngelion]

Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just passing along the informaton.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by fastfilm

Then why do we have to clean off more and more graffiti from our immediate property with each passing year? Maybe you could come up here from San Diego and help us out.

Because where you live is off the gentrification radar? I don't see gentrification expanding to Van Nuys any time soon if ever.

[CBaillo]

just because crime is going down, does not mean there isn't still a HUGE amount of crimes going on.

[Josh22]

That's for crime in LOS ANGELES itself, not Los Angeles County.

Although it's still misleading. Certain parts in Los angeles may be getting better - but some parts may be getting worse. Downtown LA, and South LA could be getting worse, while other parts could be getting better, so it's really an off-balance equation. Certain parts of LOS Angeles are completely live-able, and have some of the nicest places to live - other parts of Los angeles are the most dangerous places to live in the country. So it's really too hard to use crime stats on such a large city. Also, the stats don't include Los Angeles county cities (Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Paramount, Compton, etc), and Compton had the highest murder rate in the country in 2006, with East St louis behind it, then Camden NJ, then Detroit.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Josh22

That's for crime in LOS ANGELES itself, not Los Angeles County.

Although it's still misleading. Certain parts in Los angeles may be getting better - but some parts may be getting worse. Downtown LA, and South LA could be getting worse, while other parts could be getting better, so it's really an off-balance equation. Certain parts of LOS Angeles are completely live-able, and have some of the nicest places to live - other parts of Los angeles are the most dangerous places to live in the country. So it's really too hard to use crime stats on such a large city. Also, the stats don't include Los Angeles county cities (Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Paramount, Compton, etc), and Compton had the highest murder rate in the country in 2006, with East St louis behind it, then Camden NJ, then Detroit.

The Valley seems to be where things are getting worse more than anywhere else. As for downtown LA, gentrification has taken hold of parts of it (the only reminders of its seedy past in the gentrified parts of downtown are the huge numbers of prostitutes) but other parts are as bad as ever. BTW, I made a post about those stats in another thread - Compton had the second highest murder rate in California next to Richmond and was only one of four California cities which made the 25 worst murder rates in the US (the others being San Bernardino and Oakland - and I wouldn't want to live in any of those 4)

[NoRules]

The LAPD does not take reports

therefore less crime

Mayor Vivallaraza is working for other interests....

[majoun]

Originally Posted by NoRules

The LAPD does not take reports

therefore less crime

Mayor Vivallaraza is working for other interests....

Care to name those interests?

[snb3]

Originally Posted by NoRules

The LAPD does not take reports

therefore less crime

Mayor Vivallaraza is working for other interests....

Such as illegally attempting to take over the schools. Wonder why...hmm? Charter schools.....

I saw that article recently. If anyone reads LA Times on a regular basis, you might've read that article about violent crimes skyrocketing in the Mid-Wilshire/ Koreatown disctrict. I welcome anybody who believes that crimes are on the downturn to drive past there anytime after dark. Or better yet, walk a block.