Crime / Homelessness
Crime / Homelessness
This LA neighborhood remains free of homeless tents. The I-Team reveals why
September 19, 2024 | NBC 4 Los Angeles
As the I-Team reported in August, the city cleared away encampments on Hollywood Boulevard between Gower Street and Wilton Place, just days before it closed the street for thousands of bicyclists for the event called CicLAvia.
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LA’s Inside Safe program cleans up Koreatown homeless encampment
September 18, 2024 | ABC 7 Los Angeles
The office of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass conducted another Inside Safe operation on Tuesday, a program designed to get the homeless off the streets and into housing.
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Exclusive: California’s homeless population grew again this year, especially in these counties
September 10, 2024 | CalMatters
New data shows nearly 186,000 people now live on the streets and in homeless shelters in California, proving the crisis continues to grow despite increasing state and local efforts to stem the tide.
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L.A. homicides down slightly so far in 2024: report
September 6, 2024 | KTLA 5
New data released from the Los Angeles Police Department shows that the city’s murder rate has dipped from the previous year, down 6.2% from 2023.
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California has spent billions on homelessness but lacks hard data on outcomes
September 5, 2024 | CalMatters
California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.
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Federal judge frustrated over missing data on LA homeless spending
August 28, 2024 | ABC 7 Los Angeles
A federal judge is demanding answers in an ongoing audit of how the city and the county of Los Angeles are spending public funds to solve the homeless crisis.
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Measure A: Raising LA County’s sales tax to fund homelessness efforts
August 28, 2024 | LAist
Los Angeles voters consistently say homelessness is their top concern. But do they think this intractable problem can be solved by raising taxes on goods sold in L.A.? County voters already supported higher sales taxes to address homelessness years ago. This November, a new measure will ask them to increase those taxes to fund new approaches to addressing the crisis.
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Feds say LA car rental lot was a ‘crime tourism’ hub that targeted Ventura County homes
August 28, 2024 | Ventura County Star
In 2018, burglary crews started hitting homes in nice neighborhoods in and around Thousand Oaks. When Ventura County sheriff’s investigators started digging, they found the cases had three things in common: The suspects they arrested were foreign nationals, mostly from Chile, in the United States on short-term tourist visas.
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‘Crime tourism group’ busted in Los Angeles also operated in Illinois
August 28, 2024 | Fox 2 Now
Six people were arrested Wednesday and charged in Southern California for their alleged involvement in a nationwide theft ring that included Illinois. The Department of Justice said a man and his live-in girlfriend, 57-year-old Juan Carlos Thola-Duran and 41-year-old Ana Maria Arriagada, facilitated a ‘crime tourism group’ comprised of South Americans and other individuals.
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Gov. Newsom signs 2 bills into law expanding housing amid California’s homelessness crisis
August 27, 2024 | CBS News
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills into law Tuesday intended to expand available housing in California — the latest in a series of state efforts to tackle the state's homelessness crisis.
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