They say crime is down; Are they reading the Breeze?
Most statistics these days show crime is down. We'll have our own report on the South Bay in about a week or so. It shows the same trend.
I guess statistics don’t lie, but it sure seems like crime is increasing.
I’m heading out for a week off. It’s a much needed break. (I might blog something here and there from my recliner.)
Here’s some of what’s happened crime-wise in the 10 weeks since my last vacation. (You might want to get something to drink):
I guess statistics don’t lie, but it sure seems like crime is increasing.
I’m heading out for a week off. It’s a much needed break. (I might blog something here and there from my recliner.)
Here’s some of what’s happened crime-wise in the 10 weeks since my last vacation. (You might want to get something to drink):
- Rancho Palos Verdes resident Randal Simmons became the first Los Angeles police SWAT officer killed in the line of duty.
- A Gardena man allegedly stabbed his girlfriend to death in his apartment.
- Torrance police shot one of four robbery suspects at the end of a chase. The robbers had just held up a 99 Cents store.
- California State University, Dominguez Hills locked down while looking for a man walking on campus with a rifle. It turned out he was an ROTC student and there was no danger.
- A hit-and-run driver killed Torrance resident Garrett Ogushi when he got out of his car following a crash on the San Diego Freeway in Carson. He had crashed into a drunken driver stopped in his lane in front of him.
- Police found machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, assault rifles, handguns and thousands of rounds of ammunition at a Torrance man’s house.
- A hotel in Carson became the target for protests after the Daily Breeze revealed the state was using it to house sex offenders just released from prison.
- A West High grad from Torrance was arrested when police found the ingredients to build bombs inside his UC Davis dorm room.
- A popular Palos Verdes High School student was killed in a crash on Crenshaw Boulevard in Torrance. He was apparently speeding.
- An off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee at Los Angeles International Airport was killed when he stopped to use an ATM machine near Inglewood and interrupted a robbery already underway.
- Gardena City Councilman Oscar Medrano was arrested and charged with molesting a girl for years.
- Los Angeles police officers killed a man who shot at them in Wilmington. Two hours later, they shot another man who opened fire on them as they investigated the first shooting.
- Torrance police shot a suicidal man who lunged at them with a knife.
- A man who attacked his girlfriend and a friend with a knife was talked into surrendering during an all-night standoff in Hermosa Beach.
- A kidnapping suspect led police on a pursuit from South LA into Redondo Beach.
- A 15-year-old was shot and killed while standing on porch in San Pedro.
- A woman nicknamed the Weathergirl robbed banks in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach before she was caught.
- The executive director of the Gardena Chamber of Commerce was charged with embezzling $41,000 from the organization.
- An El Camino College student from Compton admitted after his arrest that he committed up to 40 street robberies in Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood and Westchester. He wanted Sidekick phones.
- A man sexually assaulted a dancer he met at a Gardena club.
- Hermosa Beach police arrested a man as a suspect in burglaries at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf stores.
- An off-duty Lennox sheriff’s deputy shot a man who tried to run him off the Century Freeway and then attacked him with a knife when he parked on the shoulder.
- An elderly woman was found beaten to death in her house near Carson.
- Los Angeles police shot and killed a Wilmington gang member who opened fire on them. The man had vowed to kill police.
Hmmm.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
E-mail Larry at larry.altman@dailybreeze.com.
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Crime stats have to show crime is down to make the useless Mayor look good. Just look at the L.A. Times Homicde report to see all the murders in Los Angeles. And this does not include all the shootings, latino gangs are destroying California.
Crime is not down if you happen to be the poor sob, who happens to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Maybe it's just the fickle finger of fate, or maybe there's something else going on.