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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Los Angeles isn’t even in the top 75 most dangerous metro areas in the US. Violent crime rate is exceedingly low in LA.

https://www.populationu.com/gen/most-dangerous-cities-in-the-us#google_vignette[/quote]

A friend was almost carjacked leaving staples center after watching the LA Lakers. They smashed the driver side window as she was sitting in the driver seat, and reached in and stole her purse and stole her purse. When they tried to drag her out of the car she accelerated and got away. She called 911 and was told she would have to go back to the parking lot and wait for the police to take the report. Obviously, she wasn’t going to go back to the place where she we was just attacked. So there probably wasn’t a police report filed. [/quote]

This is literally no different than what you’ll hear from unhelpful 911 operators in Dallas, Cleveland, Peoria, DC, or Boston. It’s a problem with policing in America; they literally are inured to plight.

Not sure what this n=1 anecdote has to do with anything. The stats still bare out that Los Angeles is dramatically less dangerous than most other metro areas. [/quote]

Low arrest rates = low crime rates
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Nope, crime rates are not measured based on arrests. Try again. [/quote]

Once again, when you legalize crime, then crime rates are going to be lower. 
They nearly brag about the crimes they will not longer arrest people for or prosecute.

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In 2018, under George Gascón, San Francisco had the highest property crime rate in the nation. At the end of Gascon’s reign in SF, property crime had increased by 37%. Look at SF now.

On Dec 7, 2020, when Gascón became the DA of Los Angeles, there wasn’t one mention of “victims rights,” “public safety,” or how he was going to address burglaries, robberies, or theft crimes in LA. For the architect of Prop 47, it just wasn’t a concern-burglaries, thefts & many other felonies and all misdemeanors were listed under Gascon’s directives as $0 bail. Gascon even got rid of white collar crime enhancements that could be used for organized retail theft. Gascón was more concerned about releasing criminals, not charging crimes, abandoning victims & playing politcal games.

3 years later we have a public safety crisis in LA with these smash & grab burglaries and flash mob robberies taking center stage. Just so we are being honest about the “science & data,” in Nov 2021, under Gascón, we had the exact same problem here in LA where 14 suspects were arrested for 11 mob style smash & grab burglaries and ALL were released on $0 bail. The public was outraged. Gov Newsom created a task force & requested $300 million in state funds to combat the public safety crisis.

Fast forward to the present & we are still dealing with the same exact problem. However, the real issue that no “leader” wanted to address in 2021 or at this new task force announced yesterday -George Gascón. It’s gotten so bad, Gascon wasn’t even invited to yesterday’s presser. 
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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. [/quote]
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.[/quote]
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. [/quote] 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[/quote]

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