Midafternoon Shooting, Man Is Hit, 1900 block Pine Ave. (6th District)

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Noon-Hour Shooting 1600 block Pine Ave. (1st dist.), Six Days After Shooting 1800 block Pine (6th dist.); Two Months Earlier, Bullet Hit Residence Near 14th St. Park, Two Blocks West Of New "Habitat For Humanity" Home (1st dist.)

It's second 1st dist. shooting in one day; at predawn, evidence of gunfire two blocks east of Chavez Park (1st dist.); no person/property hit

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(April 27, 2016) -- A man (adult) was shot in the noon-hour today (Weds. April 27) in the 1600 block of Pine Ave. (1st dist.) roughly a mile north of downtown LB's Pine Ave. business/entertainment district. It's the second time in one day that gunfire flew in the the 1st Council district; in the predawn hours (April 27), LBPD responded to shots heard in the 500 block of Maine Ave. (two blocks east of Chavez Park) and found evidence of a shooting but no persons or property struck.

LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson tells LBREPORT.com that at about 12:53 p.m. on April 27, officers responded to the area of 16th/Pine and found a man with a gunshot wound; LBFD transported him to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening injury. LBPD is investigating the shooting as possibly gang related.

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2014 to date: Red Xs=homicides; Blue Xs= shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs= shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified); Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings. Map is unofficial. A separate map (not shown here) indicates add'l shootings in NLB.

A little over nine hours earlier at about 3:40 a.m., officers were dispatched to shots heard in the area of the 500 block of Maine Ave. (1st dist.); LBPD Public Information Officer Marlene Arrona tells LBREPORT.com that arriving officers found evidence of a shooting but no persons or property struck.

Six days earlier, a man (adult) was shot in the 2 p.m. hour in the 1800 block of Pine Ave. (north of PCH/South Wrigley 6th dist.)

A little over two months earlier (Feb. 25), gunfire struck a person's residence in the 10 p.m. hour in the 300 block of W. 14th St. near Cedar Ave. (1st Council dist), roughly two blocks west of a newly built, newly occupied "Habitat for Humanity" home. About three weeks earlier, Mayor Robert Garcia and 1st dist. Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez attended a Feb. 6 press event at the home, publicizing the event. (LBREPORT.com coverage with VIDEO here..

In other shootings:

April 21, 1800 block Pine Ave., man shot (6th dist.)
April 18, 1200 block E. 17th St., four people shot; one dies, three are wounded (6th dist.)
April 11: 200 block W. 12th St., male victim is shot (1st dist.)
April 11: 1900 block W. Willow St., building is hit (7th dist.)
April 10: Man (adult) shot, 3300 block Caspian Ave. (7th dist.)
April 9: Man (adult) shot, Linden/Norton (8th dist.) [This shooting just days before election day was a few blocks from the newly named Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library in 9th dist.]
April 9: Man (adult) shot, Coolidge Triangle area, 200 block E. Barclay (9th dist.)
Apr. 7: Man (adult) shot/wounded area Artesia Blvd./Butler Ave. (9th dist.)
Apr. 7: Man (adult) shot/wounded area Artesia Blvd./Butler Ave. (9th dist.)
Apr. 2: Late afternoon gunfire South St./Linden Ave., no persons/property (border 8th/9th Council districts)

Mar. 31: 17 year old shot/killed, 1300 block E. 11th St. (6th dist. near border of 2nd dist.)

Mar. 30: Man is shot/killed, 1600 block Pine Ave. (1st dist.)

Mar. 21: Car to car shooting, 1400 block E. 14th St., no victims found (6th dist.)

Mar. 19: Gunfire, area 10th/Olive, no person hit (border of the 1st/6th districts)

Mar. 17: Man is shot, E. 10th St./Lime Ave. (borders 1st and 6th districts)

Mar. 11: Man is shot, area 1st St. between Lime/Alamitos (border 2nd district)

Mar. 6: Man is shot, area 19th/Cedar (6th dist.), found dead in vehicle 1700 block Pacific Ave. (1st dist.)

Mar. 3: Two people shot, one of whom dies, area Artesia Blvd/Butler Ave. (9th dist.)

Feb. 28: Man found shot to death, area 10th St./Norman Court(4th dist.)

Feb. 27: Gunfire hits vehicle, area 11th/Ohio (4th dist.)

Feb. 9: Man (adult) shot in midnight hour, 2200 block Spaulding St. (4th dist.)

Feb. 8: 2600 block Adriatic Ave., man is shot (7th dist.)

Feb. 6: 1900 block of W. Wardlow Rd., man is shot (7th dist.)

Feb. 2: 2200 block Lime Ave., man is shot (6th dist.)

Jan. 24: 1900 block Pasadena Ave., unoccupied vehicle struck by gunfire (6th dist.)

Jan. 24: 800 block Walnut Ave.: two vehicles damaged by gunfire (2nd dist.)

Jan. 17: 1300 block Walnut Ave. (three vehicles damaged by gunfire (3:30 a.m.) (6th dist.),

Jan. 10: 3200 block E. Artesia Blvd. (9th dist.): Man (adult) was found shot multiple times

Jan. 9: Chestnut/17th St.: Evidence of gunfire, no persons/property struck (1st dist.)

Jan. 1: 1300 block MLK Ave. (6th Council district); no persons hit

On Sept 15 and 22, 2015 the Council voted (without dissent) to adopt a FY16 budget, recommended by Mayor Robert Garcia, that failed to restore LBPD's former field anti-gang unit. It leaves LB taxpayers with a budgeted police level for citywide deployment roughly equivalent per capita to what L.A. would have if L.A.'s Mayor and Council cut roughly 30% of LAPD's officers.

In August 2012, Mayor Foster first recommended the budgeted elimination of LBPD's field anti-gang unit. The Council balked, funded the unit at half strength for a year, but in subsequent years quietly let it disappear. Then-Vice Mayor Garcia (chosen by Foster to chair the Council's Public Safety Committee in mid-2010) held no hearings on Foster's proposal or any public safety impacts of Foster's budget recommendations. Councilwoman Suzie Price, whom Mayor Garcia named to chair the Public Safety Committee in 2014, has followed that practice regarding Garcia's budget recommendations.