Crime is up in Los Angeles while the city’s police department (LAPD) struggles to recruit new officers, officials said at the July 19 police commissioners’ meeting.
The data presented by LAPD Chief Michel Moore at the meeting compares numbers from the period between Jan. 1 to July 9 of this year to the same period in the past two years.
There were an additional 998 violent crimes reported compared to 2021—which is a 6.9 percent increase, and a 13.7 percent increase since 2020.
The number of homicide cases is roughly the same as last year but up about 28 percent from 2020.
Property crimes such as burglaries, carjackings, car burglaries, and personal item thefts are all on the rise—up 13.1 percent from 2021, according to the LAPD data….