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Lunacy: Is there a spike in crime during the full moon? We analyzed crime reports from full moon days vs. average days each month By Ava Macha and Ethan Ward July 16, 2019August 28, 2019 Crime ...
As COVID-19 precautions relaxed last year and people returned to offices, restaurants and shopping malls, crime across Los Angeles began to surge, hitting its highest level in five years. Throughout ...
Last year, the city of Los Angeles recorded more than 300 murders for the first time in more than a decade. When 2020 ended, there had been 343 homicides, a 34% increase from the previous year. This ...
Property values in Los Angeles County have been on a tear, but several communities have seen a meteoric rise.
News reports about retail theft were inescapable in 2023, and when the year came to an end Los Angeles had entered unprecedented territory: There were 11,945 shoplifting reports in the city, according ...
Overall crime in Los Angeles fell nearly 11% last year. As the coronavirus pandemic upended life across the region, there were 192,438 crimes reported in the city, down from the 215,763 in 2019, ...
In 2023, the city of Los Angeles recorded 327 murders. It’s a tragic loss of life, and results in a homicide rate that exceeds most big cities across California. A city’s homicide total is often used ...
How does the money stack up in this year’s Los Angeles mayor’s race? Four charts explain where it all comes from.
How we did it: We looked at LAPD publicly available data on reported crimes in 2018. For neighborhood boundaries, we rely on the borders defined by the Los Angeles Times. Learn more about our data ...
When domestic violence victims get a restraining order, abusers routinely violate them with no consequences.
The city of Los Angeles hit a grim record last year, recording a 56% spike in hate crimes. There were 594 reported crimes in which a victim was targeted based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual ...
Last year, the Los Angeles Police Department arrested 44% fewer people than it did a decade ago, even as the number of reported crimes is about the same as it was in 2010. In 2010, there were 161,998 ...