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L.A. crime lowest in 40 years

City officials credit more sophisticated law enforcement, more officers on the beat and improved community-police relations for the sizable drop in crime, Rick Coca writes today. But don't get too comfortable, LAPD Chief William J. Bratton says. The city's five-year drop in crime could be threatened in 2008 if voters don't approve a February ballot measure extending a telephone utility users tax, The Times writes.
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Posted by Jason Kandel on January 3, 2008 6:45 AM |

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