Man (Adult) Is Shot Sunday Night, 300 block E. Eagle St. (East of LB Blvd., South of Burnett)

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(Aug. 31, 2015) -- LBREPORT.com has learned of a shooting Sunday night in the 300 block of E. Eagle St. (east of LB Blvd., south of Burnett St.) in Central LB's 6th Council district.

LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt says that at about 9:10 p.m., officers responded to the location and found a victim hit by gunfire after being fired-on by an unknown suspect. The victim was transported to a hospital, listed in stable condition.

Two nights earlier (Aug. 28), a man was shot and wounded in what appeared to be a "walk up" shooting in the area of 10th St./Virginia Court (between Magnolia and Chestnut Aves.) roughly a mile due north of City Hall in the historic Willmore City area (1st Council district.) It's likewise being investigated as possibly gang related.

About an hour after the shooting, Lt. Berkenkamp says LBPD officers were on an unrelated call at St. Mary hospital when a man approached them with two stab wounds and indicated he'd been stabbed in the 1000 block of Pine Ave. That incident is also being investigated as possibly gang related.

On Aug. 27, a woman (adult) was shot and wounded, and some cars were damaged by gunfire in the Seaside Park/14th St. Park area near Chestnut Ave. (1st district.)

On Aug. 24, gunfire wounded a 17 year old male in the Wrigley area (Burnett St./Linden Ave., 6th district.) On the same night (Aug. 24), shots were fired but no person and no property were hit in the area of 16th Pine (1st district.)

A night before that (Aug. 23), a man was shot and killed in the area of PCH/Pine Ave. (border of 1st and 6th districts.)

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Red Xs=2014 and 2015 murders to date; Blue Xs=2014 and 2015 shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=2014 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.

The latest shootings less than two weeks after Councilmembers held budget hearing on police budget; no Councilmembers make any motions, or indicate any willingnes to do so in coming weeks, to restore all of part of LBPD's former field anti-gang unit, or any of roughly 200 officers Mayor recommended/Council enacted budgets have erased since 2009

On Aug. 18, 2015, 6th district Councilman Dee Andrews (seeking election to a third term via write-in in April 2016) joined a unanimous Council in not making any motions at a budget hearing on the FY16 police budget to restore any or all of the field anti-gang unit or any of roughly 200 officers no longer provided to taxpayers citywide. (The Council took no budget adoption votes on that date; they're scheduled for the first half of September.)

LBPD's former field anti-gang unit formerly deployed 20 officers + 2 sergeants in gang impacted neighborhoods, where officers could observe conditions firsthand, work contacts and gather intelligence. LBPD still has a budgeted anti-gang unit (handling investigations, filing cases and the like) but not an anti-gang unit operating in the field as taxpayers once received.

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In August 2012, Mayor Bob Foster recommended a budget that would have entirely eliminated funding for field anti-gang unit. The Council disagreed and used "one time" funding to allow up to half the unit in FY13. A year later, the Council then quietly let funding for the field anti-gang unit disappear in FY14, and Mayor Garcia and a new Council majority didn't restore it in FY15.

As in previous years, the Council's Mayor-chosen Public Safety Committee (currently comprised of Councilmembers Price [chair], Austin and Mungo) hasn't held hearings on the public safety implications of the Mayor's recommended budget.

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