Stein, Bradley D.; Jaycox, Lisa H.; Kataoka, Sheryl H.; Wong, Marleen; Tu, Wenli; Elliott, Marc N.; Fink, Arlene (6 August 2003). "A Mental Health Intervention for Schoolchildren Exposed to Violence: A Randomized Controlled Trial". JAMA. 290 (5): 603–611. doi: 10.1001/jama.290.5.603. PMID 12902363. Outside the South Los Angeles apartment building where Mario and Tony Gonzalez lived, a man who declined to give his name but said he was their uncle confirmed they were brothers and members of the Kitchen Crips. The people in this community don’t feel safe,” he said, “but that’s been going on for a long time.” The Rampart scandal involved widespread police corruption in CRASH in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers either assigned to or associated with the unit were implicated in various forms of misconduct, including unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering up of evidence of these activities. [32]

But Janette Waight, a nurse who has worked in Beverly Hills for seven years and was strolling through Roxbury Park with her boss’ terrier, felt differently. The heightened rhetoric marks a departure from language shared by many of the same officials just last year, after George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer. This has set off alarms among activists who led protests, want to see progressive justice measures enacted and hear echoes of past eras when, they believe, the overhyping of crime led to overpolicing and excessive incarceration.The “sensationalization” of high-profile, if statistically rare, crimes has “upped the ante,” said Leap. “People don’t differentiate violent crime from burglaries [and] smash and grabs. Yes, they’re stealing jewelry and designer handbags, but also people aren’t getting killed.” On Friday at Beverly Hills’ Roxbury Park, a handful of child-care providers sat together over lunch. One woman said she had moved her walking schedule earlier each day to feel more secure. Jill Replogle (20 December 2012). "For Boat Captain, Rescuing Maritime Smugglers Is Part Of The Job". KPBS . Retrieved 28 December 2012. Danver, Steven L., ed. (2011). "Los Angeles Uprising (1992)". Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History: An Encyclopedia, Volume 3. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. pp.1095–1100. ISBN 978-1-59884-222-7.

a b c d e f g Gazzar, Brenda (21 March 2017). "LAPD says gang-related crime in west San Fernando Valley has spiked since 2014". Daily News. ProQuest 1879723450. It’s the 1980s and Los Angeles is a city swarming with corruption, Narcotics, and crime. The unique case has presented itself, however it needs a detective who isn’t afraid to do what’s necessary. If that’s you, then join the L. A. P. D. And solve crimes under the leadership of James Bradley! Trump invoking Insurrection Act could undo years of police reform, experts warn". NBC News. 4 June 2020 . Retrieved 2021-12-27.Some observers say that even shootings without victims can cause secondary trauma for residents in those neighborhoods. And they dismiss observations about crime being down as a privileged, out-of-touch perspective of those who live in richer and safer areas. Pagan, Eduardo Obregon (2000). "Los Angeles Geopolitics and the Zoot Suit Riot, 1943". Social Science History. 24 (1): 223–256. doi: 10.1017/S0145553200010129. ISSN 1527-8034. S2CID 145233558. According to LAPD data through Nov. 27, property crime this year is up 2.6% over the same period last year but is down 6.6% from 2019. Robbery is up 3.9% over last year but down 13.6% from 2019. Burglaries are down 8.4% from last year and down 7.7% from 2019. Car thefts are a notable outlier, up nearly 53% from 2019. People might just be noticing this, but it’s happened before,” he said, noting that his wife was robbed at gunpoint of a white-gold Rolex more than a decade ago outside their garage. Now she wears a “standard wristwatch of no value,” he added.