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| 'Never Seen Anything Like It': Los Angeles Residents Stunned As Violent Crimes Creep Into Wealthier Communities |
| 2021-12-05 |
[LA Times via Zero] After two years of rising crime in Los Angeles, residents of upscale neighborhoods are finally starting to freak out after a spate of 'flash mob' lootings at high-end retail stores have been accompanied with a disturbing increase in violent crimes committed in the suburbs, according to the LA Times.Crews of burglars publicly smashing their way into Los Angeles’ most exclusive stores. Robbers following their victims, including a star of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and a BET host, to their residences. And this week, the fatal shooting of 81-year-old Jacqueline Avant, an admired philanthropist and wife of music legend Clarence Avant, in her Beverly Hills home. "The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe," said Oprah Winfrey, expressing grief over Avant's killing via Twitter. "The world is upside down." The Times notes that while overall crime rates within Los Angeles remain far below the notoriously violent 1990s, much of it has been concentrated in poor communities - so it receives virtually no attention. Now that crime has "crept up in wealthier enclaves and thrust its way to the center of public discourse" across the city. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 #6 girl needs to read a bit more Kipling That or a few randon copies of the Nolaguana Dipsomaniac-Offender or Louritania Weekly. |
| Posted by: Spats and Company8850 2021-12-05 22:50 |
| #14 True |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-12-05 20:57 |
| #13 You'd love me to bring my policies, to your neighborhood. There are people who made California the incredible thing it was. And there are people just gnawing on the carcass. Each have vastly different visions of the future. I hope the first group wins. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-12-05 19:51 |
| #12 Life-long San Diego Native. You'd love me to bring my policies, to your neighborhood. My Congresscriiter was Duncan Hunter, his so (who went astray), and now Issa. Anti-Illgeal Immigration, pro-business, low tax... Bottom line: born and raised here, I'll be bucking the Dems here til I die. Don't feel so superior by casting that aspersion. May want to refer to Abu Uluque, RJ, and other locals |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-12-05 19:26 |
| #11 I believe Willie Sutton is attributed to have answered the question why he robbed banks - cause that's where the money is. There is a reason the word vandal is in the language. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-12-05 19:17 |
| #10 #4 they're starting to poison parts of Idaho And Texas. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2021-12-05 16:37 |
| #9 Good |
| Posted by: Chris 2021-12-05 15:08 |
| #8 They need to stay and not inflict their policies on states that are safer. You broke it, it’s yours. Oprah- “The world is upside down”. Yes, Oprah, when you were presented with the magic wand option to determine which would better aid your community: 1) Eliminate all racists, or 2) Eliminate single motherhood and put a father into those homes, You picked #1. |
| Posted by: jack salami 2021-12-05 10:43 |
| #7 WTF did you assholes expect when you unleashed your Race-Furies on this country? Normal people of good sense need to smash BLM and BLM-think. Extinguish it from the schools and universities. Scorn the use of BS terms like "white privilege" and "white fragility" and "systemic racism" and "voter suppression" and all the ridiculous toxic cant that's infected our speech. Shun neighbors or colleagues who indulge these assholes and repeat their lies. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-05 10:38 |
| #6 "The fact that this has happened, her being shot and killed in her own home, after giving, sharing, and caring for 81 years has shaken the laws of the Universe," Laws of the Universe? I fear our girl needs to read a bit more Kipling. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-12-05 10:21 |
| #5 Where the Rich Liberals so stupid as to not think crime follows the $$$$$$. Having looted and etc. most of the high $$$$$ stores in LA, over the last 2 years, the Liberals on the surrounding Hills are where the $$$$ is now. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-12-05 09:56 |
| #4 they're starting to poison parts of Idaho |
| Posted by: 746 2021-12-05 09:41 |
| #3 Enjoy what you voted for. Just don't leave and poison other states with your stupidity. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2021-12-05 09:18 |
| #2 Overall REPORTED crime rates are down compared to the 90s, but many things that used to be reported are not any more. Petty theft, looting etc. In some places car jacking is no longer reported, I hink. |
| Posted by: Goober Choluque6459! 2021-12-05 08:38 |
| #1 You voted for this...play stupid games...win stupid prizes |
| Posted by: Warthog 2021-12-05 06:58 |