a b Queally, James (2015-07-29). "Watts Riots: Traffic stop was the spark that ignited days of destruction in L.A." Los Angeles Times . Retrieved May 31, 2020.

He had gone to a bail bonds office earlier Friday and figured they were accused of a serious crime because of the high bail amount, but said he was unaware they’d been charged with murder until a Times reporter told him. Demaris, Ovid (1981). The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno. Bantam Books. ISBN 0-8129-0955-0. The 1992 Los Angeles riots, sometimes called the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, [25] were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County in April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. This incident had been videotaped and widely shown in television broadcasts.

Many local merchants and employees saw the August killing of 26-year-old Shoe Palace employee Jayren Bradford outside that store as a tipping point, Nichols said, and have been chipping in funds for the cameras. We still have far too much gun violence in this city,” Moore told the Board of Police Commissioners at its Oct. 3 meeting. The city had also experienced an increase in thefts, he said, a problem he has linked to a boom in online retail marketplaces that resell stolen goods. “This an area where our focus continues to be,” he said. Hinton, Elizabeth (2016). From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. Harvard University Press. pp.68–72. ISBN 9780674737235. Editorial; D.A.'s Blind Spot". Daily News, (Los Angeles, CA). March 21, 2000 . Retrieved November 14, 2014. The Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums ( C.R.A.S.H.) was a specialized unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) tasked with combating gang-related crime. CRASH was established in South Central in 1979 to combat the rising problem of gangs in the city. Each of the LAPD's 21divisions had a CRASH unit assigned to it, whose primary goal was to suppress the influx of gang-related crimes in Los Angeles, which came about primarily from the increase in illegal drug trade. [30] [31]

Pearson, Drew (October 14, 1950). "The Crime Front". St. Petersburg Times. p.6 . Retrieved January 27, 2010. Mayor Eric Garcetti and Police Chief Michel Moore said none of the 14 suspects remains in custody, pointing to zero-bail policies put in place because of the pandemic.A 17-year-old girl called police after she heard a gunshot and a man yelling outside her bedroom door. Police say he killed a Los Angeles philanthropist an hour earlier. Myers, Thomas (1 January 2009). "The Unconstitutionality, Ineffectiveness, and Alternatives of Gang Injunctions". Michigan Journal of Race and Law. 14 (2): 285–305. In addition to the killings, LAPD officials said the suspects had been linked to multiple other shootings, attempted murders, assaults, robberies and stolen vehicles. The Sheriff’s Department did not respond to a request for comment.

Garske, Monica (26 September 2014). "Several Arrested After Panga Boat Washes Ashore". KNSD . Retrieved 26 September 2014. Cannon, Lou; Lee, Gary (May 2, 1992). "Much Of Blame Is Laid On Chief Gates". The Washington Post . Retrieved November 22, 2018. After a period of steady declines in gang-related crime during the 2000s, the San Fernando Valley experienced one of the lowest periods of violent crimes from 2012 to 2014. [47] However, the Los Angeles Police Department has reported that violent, gang-related crimes has increased by 63% from 2014 to 2015. [47] The cause for the cycle of crime might be attributed to a number of different factors that may include money, narcotics sales, or the release of a prolific gang member from prison looking to recruit members for his crew. [47] Gang-related murders in LAPD's Devonshire, Topanga and West Valley's division more than doubled from 3 in 2014 to 8 in 2016 with the Topanga division experiencing the sharpest increase. [47] The Topanga division reported 0 homicides in 2014 compared to 5 gang-related homicides reported in 2015. [47] In the West San Fernando Valley, there were a total of 848 gang-related crimes in 2016, which is a 33% increase from crimes reported in 2014. [47] Smuggling [ edit ] Monkkonan, Eric H "Homicide in Los Angeles, 1827–2002", The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 36, No. 2 (Autumn 2005), pp.167–183, The MIT Press L.A. Police Raid Home of Dragna". Eugene Register-Guard. United Press International. February 13, 1950. p.15 . Retrieved January 27, 2010.Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles) | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute". kinginstitute.stanford.edu. June 12, 2017 . Retrieved 2018-10-22. It is a discourse defined by glaring differences of opinion and, at times, a yawning disconnect between the perception of local crime and the reality on the ground. On Jan. 4, Mario Gonzalez and Tony Gonzalez saw Feemster at another bus stop and fatally shot him, believing he belonged to a Bloods gang, prosecutors alleged.

Later that day, after someone shot at a house in the Kitchen Crips’ territory, Muratalla was “involved” in a shooting at a liquor store in a neighborhood claimed by the Swans, a Bloods gang, prosecutors alleged. It’s not clear what reforms the concerns about crime in the Los Angeles area will lead to — if any. Ruben Urcis, 90, a 42-year resident of Beverly Hills who walks twice a day along the Beverly Gardens Park walkway, said he was not disturbed by the recent string of high-profile crimes, which he didn’t consider anything new.Data alone don’t shape perceptions of safety, according to Jorja Leap, a UCLA professor who studies gang culture. Leap said a person’s environment and biases are equal factors.