Los Angeles Crimes

Citizens of Port Angeles and the surrounding community can find out what crimes are being committed in their neighborhood, city, and county through a free interactive website. All you have to do is go to our Crime Map, click on Washington State, then select Clallam County.

A special crime map shows what crimes have been reported and where they're happening, 24 hours every day. The Port Angeles and Sequim Police Departments and the Clallam County Sheriff's Office are all participating in the program that includes law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada.

Los Angeles Crimes

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This site contains crime data submitted by county and local law enforcement agencies, as well as current and historical publications on crime, juvenile justice, homicide, and hate crimes in California.

To view only the crimes reported by the Los Angeles Police Department: Click on the Crime Mapping Agencies tab, then click the drop down arrow in the Only show crime reported by window and select Los Angeles Police, CA, and then click the Agencies tab again to maximize the page view.

Los Angeles saw an 11% increase in its overall crime rate in 2022, with 60 reported crimes per 1,000 residents last year compared with 54 per 1,000 residents in 2019. The data includes both violent crimes, defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to include rape, robberies, armed assault and homicide, as well as property crimes, such as burglary, arson and vehicle theft.

Some caveats: The data does not account for the roughly 500,000 Californians who left the state amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which could translate into an increase in the reported crime rate in many neighborhoods. It includes only crimes reported to the police, which means crimes victims may be reluctant to report aren't counted. Lastly, conclusions about crime rates involving smaller neighborhoods can be skewed because the data pool is so small.

Downtown L.A.'s crime rate was more than six times the citywide rate and triple other L.A. neighborhoods in 2022. There were more than 370 reported crimes per 1,000 people recorded downtown last year.

In comparison, neighborhoods with the lowest crime rates last year were three residential areas: the hilly northeast hipster community of Mount Washington, the affluent Westside neighborhood of Beverlywood and the quiet suburban San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Porter Ranch. All three neighborhoods had fewer than 24 reported crimes per its 1,000 residents but are also collectively less populous than all of downtown Los Angeles.

Some neighborhoods experienced what at first appears to be a steep rise in violent crime, but a closer look tells a different story. For instance, the data shows violent crime soared 114% from 2019 to 2022 in the 5,500-resident Westside neighborhood of Rancho Park, but that was the result of the number of these episodes rising from seven to 15. That's still less than three reported violent crimes per 1,000 residents.

Morales said the division has been able to work specifically to address property crimes in 2023, with overtime details and special taskforces that she said enabled her to drop the rate of motor vehicle burglaries from near 45% to 28% in the first two months of the year.

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Traci Park, whose district includes many of these Westside neighborhoods, said a lot of violent crime involves homeless-on-homeless crimes around and within encampments that sprang up and were allowed by city officials to remain in place during the pandemic.

Park, who said she experienced an attempted carjacking in front of her home a year and a half ago, said some of the biggest frustrations residents raised during her campaign involved small crimes that impacted their quality of life: stolen bicycles, stolen packages or items stolen from cars.

In areas with higher-end retail, there are crimes of opportunity where people are engaging in smash and grabs or are "porch pirates" stealing packages, said Vicki Halliday, who lives in the Westside neighborhood of Venice and serves on the Venice Neighborhood Council, an advisory body that's part of the L.A. city government and is funded by taxpayers.

In 2015, it was revealed that the LAPD had been under-reporting crime for eight years, making the crime rate in the city appear much lower than it really is. Approximately 14,000 assaults went unreported as "minor offenses" rather than violent crimes.[4] Additionally, recent years have seen more crime in the increasingly gentrified downtown area.[5] However, these inaccuracies do not affect the general downward trend in crime in Los Angeles.[4]

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 21 divisions 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]

At the turn of the century, gang-related crime that includes murder, robbery, rape, burglary, aggravated assault, larceny and theft, were a frequent occurrence in the San Fernando Valley. In order to combat the increase in violent crimes, the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill Division deployed a campaign of gang injunction across the Valley. In April 1993, the department embarked on the Blythe Street gang injunction that encompassed sections of the Devonshire and Van Nuys police divisions.[44] Although not made permanent until February 2000, between 1993 and 2001, there have been a total of 60 arrests; 40 of which were related to a direct violation of the injunction and the rest were indirect arrests due to the discovery of another crime while investigating a violation of the injunction.[44] The gang injunctions in the early 2000s were successful in reducing violent crimes in the San Fernando Valley however, many are convinced that the injunctions against the gangs of the Valley are the reason for the expansion of gang-related crimes in surrounding areas.[45]

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]

A video of a flash mob burglary or a sideshow taking over an intersection can easily rack up millions of views online, creating the impression that such crimes are happening everywhere, Leap said, a cycle boosted by social media algorithms that promote outrage.

\"What we've seen over just the past week in the City of Los Angeles and in surrounding regions is unacceptable, which is why today we are here announcing action,\" Mayor Karen Bass said in a statement. \"These are not victimless crimes -- especially in the case where Angelenos were attacked -- through force or fear-- as they did their jobs or ran errands.\"

Suspects involved in these types of crimes will be charged with robberies and held in jail, Pitcher said during a press briefing on Thursday when addressing whether the county's zero-cash bail policy will have any impact on the task force operation.

LA vs Hate: provides free assistance to victims of hate crimes and hate incidents in Los Angeles County.

LA vs Hate can be accessed via 211 LA County, by dialing 2-1-1 on any phone in Los Angeles County, or online at: 211LA.org (English and Spanish)

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For victims of hate crimes and hate incidents outside of Los Angeles County, CA vs Hate can provide assistance with their CA vs Hate Resource Line and Network.

Child and Youth Advocates (CYA) is a student-led group to provide UCLA Law students with opportunities to learn about the many sub-disciplines of child and youth law, including child welfare, family law, juvenile justice, education, and crimes against children. CYA enables students to connect with organizations providing legal services to children, learn from invited speakers and panelists, and participate in community service with local youth-serving organizations. They aim to inform members about legal issues affecting children and youth and support their endeavors in the field.

Some examples of crimes that may require strong legal defense include, but are not limited to: DUIs, drug charges, white collar crimes, violent crimes, sex crimes, theft offenses, hate crimes, domestic violence, child abuse and juvenile crimes. Some Los Angeles criminal defense attorneys focus on certain types of offenses, whereas other attorneys handle a variety of criminal defense cases.

The violent crime data in this article has been obtained from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). The FBI issues information annually that reports violent crime in every city in California. Violent crimes include murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The most recent violent crime data available for California is from 2019 Crime in the United States Data Table 8. 2351a5e196