Crime in LA
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Anonymous
What does any of this have to do with the fact that Los Angeles has significantly lower violent crime rates than pretty much all major cities in Republican controlled states? Gun crimes are a small fraction of those in Red states. You can’t juke the stats on dead bodies and gun shot wounds. |
Anonymous
No, it doesn't. "Nearly 40% of law enforcement agencies nationwide, including the New York City Police Department and Los Angeles Police Department, failed to report their 2021 crime data to the FBI, according to data provided to Axios Local from a partnership with The Marshall Project." https://www.axios.com/2022/06/14/fbi-crime-data-2021-police-reporting-failures |
Anonymous
Because you have to live somewhere to know what's going on 
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Anonymous
If stealing a car, carjacking, assault, etc aren't viewed as worthy of arrest, then they aren't crimes and perpetrators aren't criminals. |
Anonymous
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Organized gangs. My mother worked at a department store in the 1980s during the holidays to make extra money. Same thing happened then too - two vans would idle in front of the doors while 6-8 people would ransack the Levi's jeans displays. The only difference these days is that its all caught on social media + the thieves have an easier time reselling the stolen goods on Amazon, eBay, and Facebook Market Place. |
Anonymous
Crime isn't a blue or red problem. Both of our two political parties are awful have done very little to help lift communities out of poverty. Poverty is the primary factor that leads to crime and nothing else is even close. Our politicians would rather give tax breaks to large corporations and free money to those fortunate enough to have gone to college. They care nothing about children growing up in poverty because those children aren't eligible to vote and therefore don't have a vote to buy. |
Anonymous
Oh goodie another brainwashed Republican determined to BoTh SiDeS the Democratic Party that keeps pushing various ideas to help poverty and the GOP who keeps blocking every one of those ideas. Then gives billionaires tax breaks when they get power. |
Anonymous
We need to do much more to help those who live in poverty, but you insult those families who teach their kids good values, regardless of their circumstances. I've worked in schols with large numbers (majority Title I) of students who have very little, but they and their parents are not engaging in criminal behavior. |
Anonymous
The Democratic Party of late is busy pushing "restorative justice" more than anything related to poverty. As a result, we have cities with out-of-control crime and criminals who don't even try to hide their identities because they know there will be few consequences. |
Anonymous
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Cost of rampant theft get passed along to law abiding citizens as the stores have to raise prices.
Unchecked theft contributes to the rampant inflation. Read Target's latest CEO comments from update. Target as a company cannot continue as they are with the rampant unchecked theft. |
Anonymous
I also worked in a department store (Robinson's) in SoCal during the 80's, and, yes, huge thefts by organized gangs happened then too. Once they cleaned out all the Ralph Lauren polo shirts in about 5 minutes. I personally witnessed rolling racks of new merchandise rolled out the door to the parking lot where the clothes were thrown into a waiting van. My department manager tried to stop them until she had a knife pulled on her. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Our two parties are a one headed monster in this regard. They have both done the exact same amount to give kids growing up in a poverty a glimpse of something that resembles equal opportunity. Zero, zilch, nada, nothing. Kids can't vote so why waste their time and money helping them when there is no vote to buy? Sure, they talk about big plans when campaigning but there is never any follow through because that wheel isn't squeaky enough. As a lifelong Democrat, my heart tells me we're more likely to see progress on this front under Democratic leadership but until I see such progress, I say shame on all of them and shame on all of us for putting up with it. We have the resources to do much better for our disadvantaged youth and if we aren't doing absolutely all we can to give each and every child the same opportunities, then what the heck are we doing? All thats right, were giving corporations tax breaks and loopholes and we're proposing the cancellation of debt for those that went to college. Disgusting |