The numbers tell one story, but recent messaging from the Los Angeles Police Department appears to be telling another.
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Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore described the incidents as a wave of “violent and dangerous crimes.” “We’re not saying crime doesn’t exist,” said Ricci Sergienko, an organizer with the People’s City Council, a coalition of social and climate justice organizations. “We’re just saying the cops’ own statistics don’t match their narrative.”Mayor Eric Garcetti earlier this month urged calm in the wake of the retail crimes, saying that California as a whole has experienced“There’s no cause for alarm,” Garcetti said at the same Dec. 2 news conference.
“These types of crimes that Moore is talking about are generally either robbery or shoplifting,” Kahn said. “Both are down since Covid. That doesn’t mean that there haven’t been high-profile, big-haul incidents.”show that incidents of theft , robbery and burglary have been down in the last few months.
Robbery is up 5.2 percent this year compared to this point in 2020, burglary is down 7.6 percent and theft is up 0.7 percent, recent LAPD data show.
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