Crime is plummeting in ultra-liberal Los Angeles (global warming, Sacramento, bias)

[ambient]

Originally Posted by PilgrimsProgress

REPORTED crimes may have fallen but that's because victims don't bother reporting them because they know nothing will happen. Left wing politicians have reclassified the severity of crimes downward (i.e. felonies are now misdemeanors, you can steal up to $950 of goods and just get a citation) so I've heard some clever thieves bring a calculator with them as they go 'shopping.' Then they sell their ill-gotten goods for drug money.

Even the dumbest of the dumb could figure out that when you have tens of thousands of drug addicts, mentally ill and vagrants wandering around crime rates will go UP.

So... You don't deal in data, just in made up conspiracy that conveniently backs your personal bias? Small surprise you're a Trump supporter.

[nedergras]

Gas too expensive to drive out to your rival's turf.

[Vf6cruiser]

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

Much is made on this forum what a supposed hellhole Los Angeles is.

But at the rate things are going there, LA might catch up to NYC in having low crime rates for such a big city.

Latest weekly stats from the LAPD:
http://assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf

Year to date:
- Murder down -24.6% from both last year and 2017, over the same time period
- Total Rape down -40.4% from last year and -42.5% from 2017, over the same time period
- Robbery down -7.1% from last year and -4.8% from 2017, over the same time period
- Aggravated assault down -1.0% from last year and -0.7% from 2017, over the same time period

Total property crime is down -8.1% from last year and -10.8% from 2017, over the same time period.

It's still early in the year, but the trend is good.

And I note even the 2017 numbers were already considerably lower than what we saw in 2003, for the most part:
//www.city-data.com/crime/crime...alifornia.html

Yep I know Nippsey Hussle agrees......he's going to get a park named after him, it's all good in LA

[whogo]

Originally Posted by Elliott_CA

Good post, James Bond 007. I started a thread over on the California forum:

Good News: Since 1985 Serious Crime in California Has Fallen by 60%

Not just Los Angeles, but statewide. Crime is way down in California cities, largely due to declining gang warfare and falling gang membership.

Serious crime in the USA since the 80’s has dropped dramatically. I think Roe v Wade does not get as much credit as it deserves for this drop.

[hawkeye2009]

Originally Posted by James Bond 007

Much is made on this forum what a supposed hellhole Los Angeles is.

But at the rate things are going there, LA might catch up to NYC in having low crime rates for such a big city.

Latest weekly stats from the LAPD:
http://assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf

Year to date:
- Murder down -24.6% from both last year and 2017, over the same time period
- Total Rape down -40.4% from last year and -42.5% from 2017, over the same time period
- Robbery down -7.1% from last year and -4.8% from 2017, over the same time period
- Aggravated assault down -1.0% from last year and -0.7% from 2017, over the same time period

Total property crime is down -8.1% from last year and -10.8% from 2017, over the same time period.

It's still early in the year, but the trend is good.

And I note even the 2017 numbers were already considerably lower than what we saw in 2003, for the most part:
//www.city-data.com/crime/crime...alifornia.html

Hmm........... must have all moved to Chicago.

[nedergras]

Originally Posted by whogo

Serious crime in the USA since the 80’s has dropped dramatically. I think Roe v Wade does not get as much credit as it deserves for this drop.

We all know why it fell. Cocaine.

[nedergras]

Does cocaine make you happy? What we do know is that it makes the types of people that leave their homes to commit crimes stay home to use more cocaine.

[whogo]

Originally Posted by nedergras

We all know why it fell. Cocaine.

There are many factors.

[EastwardBound]

It's becoming so expensive, all the criminals are heading to Long Beach and San Bernardino.

[Chowhound]

It's a bunch of crap.

Some bills AB 53 and 41, I forget the exact numbers changed a lot in terms of crime and how it's reports and lowering thresholds for felonies and a whole other slew of things.

The crime rates for smaller petty crimes is going through the roof because they know they won't be prosecuted.