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According to data released by the LAPD, homicides in the city of Los Angeles have increased this year after reaching a 15-year high in 2021.\u00a0 Kevin Rector of the Los Angeles Times reports<\/a> that the 397 murders recorded last year were the most since 2006.\u00a0\u00a0 Like last year, news stories covering the increases in murders reflexively follow the same narrative, ie: The bloodshed remains far below that of the early 1990s, when the city had more than 1,000 homicides per year.”\u00a0 This leaves out the fact that between 1974 and 1994 homicides in California doubled under sentencing reforms adopted in the late 1960s.\u00a0 The annual increase in homicides over the past two years is unprecedented.\u00a0 If California’s recent host of “compassionate” sentencing reforms are not rejected, the state is well on the way to matching its 1994 murder rate.\u00a0 The story also reports the violent crimes in LA through April were up 7.2% and property crimes were up over 11%.\u00a0 The actual number of property crimes is unquestionably much higher.\u00a0 With little or no consequences for most property crimes in California,\u00a0 many victims are not even reporting them to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to data released by the LAPD, homicides in the city of Los Angeles have increased this year after reaching a 15-year high in 2021.\u00a0 Kevin Rector of the Los Angeles Times reports that the 397 murders recorded last year were the most since 2006.\u00a0\u00a0 Like last year, news stories covering the increases in murders reflexively follow the same narrative, ie: The bloodshed remains far below that of the early 1990s, when the city had more than 1,000 homicides per year.”\u00a0 This leaves out the fact that between 1974 and 1994 homicides in California doubled under sentencing reforms adopted in the late 1960s.\u00a0 The annual increase in homicides over the past two years is unprecedented.\u00a0 If California’s recent host of “compassionate” sentencing reforms are not rejected, the state is well on the way to matching its 1994 murder rate.\u00a0 The story also reports the violent crimes in LA through April were up 7.2% and property crimes were up over 11%.\u00a0 The actual number of property crimes is unquestionably much higher.\u00a0 With little or no consequences for most property crimes in California,\u00a0 many victims are not even reporting them to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nAnother Increase in LA Murders - 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