(Dec. 11, 2015) -- A woman in her fifties was assaulted into unconsciousness inside her East Long Beach home on the Sunday morning before Thanksgiving by a suspect who entered her residence, stole jewelry and left her seriously injured with blood at the scene in East Long Beach's Old Lakewood Village neighborhood. The victim, in her 50s, was transported to a local hospital with serious injuries to her upper body, says LBPD Public Information Officer Nancy Pratt. LBPD's preliminary investigation indicates that a person entered the victim's home in the 5100 block of Centralia Ave. and assaulted her, leaving her unconscious. When she regained consciousness, she managed to call 9-1-1 for help. LBFD paramedics responded and requested LBPD's assistance (response at about 10:55 a.m.) LBPD PIO Pratt says blood was found at the scene and jewelry was taken from the residence. Based on the circumstances, LBPD is investigating what took lace as a residential robbery and asks anyone with information about what took place o contact LBPD Robbery Detective Don Collier at (562) 570-5537. Anonymous tips may be submitted by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), texting TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637), or visiting www.lacrimestoppers.org. LBREPORT.com is continuing to follow this story. For at least two years, residents of the Old Lakewood Village area -- along with other eastside neighborhoods -- have experienced a sizable number of residential burglaries and robberies (see "Amnesia File" story below reported by LBREPORT.com in January 2014.) [Scroll down for further.] |
In Sept. 2014, 3rd dist. Councilwoman Suzie Price made a motion to add $300,000 to LBPD's budget to deal with residential burglaries, and the Council ultimately allocated $350,000 for that purpose. However the Council took no actions to restore roughly 200 budgeted citywide deployable police officers that LB taxpayers previously received. The Council's Sept. 2015 budget actions leave taxpayers in Long Beach (L.A. County's second largest city) with a budgeted sworn officer level available for citywide deployment roughly equivalent per capita to what Los Angeles would have if L.A.'s Mayor and Council voted to erase roughly 30% of LAPD's officers. At the same time, Sacramento lawmakers "balanced" their budget in part with a "realignment" of state incarceration procedures that has resulted in sending some convicted felons, considered by Sac'to to be less dangerous, back to County jails where some have been released back into the communities where they committed their crimes. In addition, voters approved Prop 47, which reclassified a number of former felonies as misdemeanors, effectively making some arrests less likely and sentences on conviction much lighter. City officials have urged residents to form "community watches" and be more aware and report suspicious activity.
(Jan. 13, 2014) -- A Jan. 2, 2014 City of Long Beach release regarding 2013 crime stats.stated in part "Throughout the year, auto burglaries trended down, with an expected year-end decrease of 18.4% (450 crimes.)" As LBREPORT.com has previously noted, Long Beach City Hall routinely cites "citywide" statistics, which are mathematically accurate, but unavoidablycombine various parts of town and thus may not reflect conditions in individual neighborhoods. Scroll down for further
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