our work not only here and the hancock community and melrose community when we saw this increase in violence, an increase in smash and grabs and robberies, we brought added patrol resources. we marshalled resources from those that brought us the ability to get more police officers a greater visibility and we saw success and a reduction in crime. yet we couldn t save this one. that with that consequence, that we feel that pain and let me commit to you that investigatively we re pulling out every stop and i m confident in the men and women of the homicide, the willshire command, of this department, to not just stand with this family but to serve this family. by identifying this killer and bringing him before the criminal justice system. that is our sworn duty to protect and serve and that we will do. at this point i d like to
homelessness. what can be done about that particular situation? because that does seem to be the source of some more outrageous crimes that we ve been seeing committed. yeah, you re right. let s just take what took place there in new york. an asian woman on a subway and all of a sudden she s pushed in to the subway by a homeless man who was alleged to have had some mental problems. we ve had the smash and grabs, thiefry, i should say, out there in california. that is taking place. what we re finding is that crime is up all over the country. you have these individuals that have mental problems and they need to be dealt with and a lot of them are homeless. there are individuals, charles, that unfortunately that are just
baffling. dana: no one has baffling since benjamin. let s bring in sean duffy. you are a former prosecutor. it must drive you absolutely crazy. 100%, dana. you played a clip of jason bowden going through a recall. saying we don t tolerate this in san francisco. he has absolutely tolerated it in san francisco for years. when people commit small crimes and nothing happens to them, more crimes.bigger crimes and it is interesting that when the robberies and burglaries took place at walgreens or target they didn t do anything about that. when you hit the louis vuitton or rich shops, now they are outraged and angry about it and going to do soefmgt we used to have the saying crime doesn t pay. dana, now in san francisco and l.a. crime does pay and you get more of it. if you are tough on crime like the old rudy giuliani of open windows. when small criminals are put away and prosecuted to the
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva reported Wednesday that the number of violent crimes his department responded to in January was up compared to.
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. is this about me? our halloween edition of insomniac theater. a couple of big movies you re excited? that s my excited halloween sound. what are we going to start with? jake gyllenhaal, nightcrawler. he plays a stringer, which is a freelance journalist. his specialty is l.a. crime. he films crashes, fires, murders and more. with each story he stands to make big money from local news outlets. tack a look. who do you work for? at the moment, i work for myself.