As longshoremen work around the clock to mitigate the container ship backlogs at the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, more empty shipping containers have been abandoned in the nearby neighborhoods to make space for unloading cargo. Over 400 citations have been issued for illegally stored containers in Wilmington, a neighborhood in the Harbor region of Los Angeles, over the last several weeks, as reported by Thomas Gazsi, the chief of Los Angeles Port Police during an Oct. 21 harbor commissioners meeting. “We are very aware of the impact it’s having and … [officers] have been out in the neighborhoods addressing as much as possible, particularly the residential areas where driveways are obstructed and folks are having difficulty leaving in the morning for school work and variety of other things,” said Gazsi. Gazsi emphasized that port patrol officers, community resource officers, and commercial enforcement officers will be providing support …