In his weekly crime briefings to the Board of Police Commissioners, Moore has noted positive gains, but the LAPD chief has also warned that gun violence remains a major concern in a city awash in firearms; the number of shootings is still higher than in the pre-COVID years, he said. Editorial; D.A.'s Blind Spot". Daily News, (Los Angeles, CA). March 21, 2000 . Retrieved November 14, 2014. The city is patrolled by the Los Angeles Police Department. California Highway Patrol and Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department also assist. Trump invoking Insurrection Act could undo years of police reform, experts warn". NBC News. 4 June 2020 . Retrieved 2021-12-27. 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.

At noon Nov. 15, according to court records, Mario Gonzalez was driving his car, with Tony Gonzalez and Padilla Yates as passengers, when he spotted Sutton, whom he believed was in a rival Bloods gang. Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles)". The Martin Luther King Jr., Research and Education Institute. 2017-06-12 . Retrieved 2020-06-06. a b c d Tamaki, Julie (29 May 1997). "Valley Gang Injunction Only Shifted Crime, ACLU Says". Los Angeles Times. ProQuest 421188131. 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.

If I didn’t watch TV, I don’t think I would have noticed the area was more dangerous,” she said. “I don’t think it is.” You go to places like Watts and Boyle Heights, and they will actually tell you that it’s safer,” Leap said. “When they show the films of Nordstrom being broken into ... there is a sort of ‘Oh my god, that’s not supposed to happen here.’ Whereas if there’s a smash-and-grab at the Food4Less in Pacoima, then there’s the sense of, ‘Well, it’s a high-crime area.’ ”

The scandal constituted one of the most widespread cases of documented police corruption in U.S. history. The investigation, based mainly on statements of admitted corrupt CRASH officer Rafael Pérez, initially implicated over 70 officers in wrongdoing. Of those officers, enough evidence was found to bring 58 before an internal administrative board. However, only 24 were actually found to have committed any wrongdoing, with twelve given suspensions of various lengths, seven forced into resignation or retirement, and five terminated. [33] Nationwide, a midyear study of crime across the U.S. by the Council on Criminal Justice found showed the country is on pace to record one of its largest annual declines in homicide, just three years after the country saw its largest ever increase amid the pandemic and the upheaval that followed the murder of George Floyd in police custody. At the same time, the report noted, crime levels levels at the halfway mark of this year remained 24% higher than through the first six months of 2019. Pearson, Drew (October 14, 1950). "The Crime Front". St. Petersburg Times. p.6 . Retrieved January 27, 2010. Myers, Thomas (1 January 2009). "The Unconstitutionality, Ineffectiveness, and Alternatives of Gang Injunctions". Michigan Journal of Race and Law. 14 (2): 285–305. 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.Violence in Watts prompts calls for unity in the community as gang interventionists partner with law enforcement and faith leaders. 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. 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. 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. The 1997 North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California on February 28, 1997. It occurred when responding patrol officers engaged Phillips and Mătăsăreanu leaving the robbed bank. Seventeen officers and civilians were wounded before both robbers were killed. Phillips and Mătăsăreanu had previously robbed several banks prior to their attempt in North Hollywood and were notorious for their heavy armament, which included automatic rifles.