This has happened at least once previously that we know about. In October 2015, LBREPORT.com reported that within a roughly 30 day period (Sept. 19-Oct. 16), LB's 1st and 6th districts combined had more shootings per capita than Chicago.

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LB's 6th district has a population of roughly 50,000 residents and during this period had three shootings. 3/50 = 0.06 (slightly exceeding Chicago.) The 1st Council district has 50,000 residents and had two shootings. 2/50 = 040 (slightly less than Chicago.) In the real world, the impacts of these shootings on nearby neighborhoods is unaffected by Council district lines. One shooting (a homicide) is attributable to the 6th district instead of the 1st district because the deceased was on the north side of 10th St. (instead of the south side.) Another 6th district shooting occurred roughly a block from the 1st district border.

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First district shootings (* indicates homicide):

• Feb. 12, man is shot/wounded, 1100 block of Daisy Ave. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)
• * Jan 28: Teenage boy fatally shot, 900 block Maine Ave. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

Sixth district shootings (*indicates homicide)

• * Feb. 12: Man is fatally shot, 1100 block E. 10th St. (6th dist. because deceased was on the north side of 10th St., LBREPORT.com coverage here.
• Feb. 2: Man is shot, 1000 block Lewis Ave., coverage here.
• * Jan.25: Man is fatally shot, 1300 block Wesley Dr (north of LBCC PCH campus), coverage here.

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LB had other shootings between Jan 25-Feb. 12: a person was shot in the western part of the 4th Council district, and LBPD found evidence of gunfire (no victim visibly hit) on the border of the 7th/8th Council districts (San Antonio/Orange area.)

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The map below displays LBPD-confirmed shootings and stabbings from Jan. 1, 2014 to date...meaning it shows what 1st Council district residents (and others) experienced during the term of office of 1st Council incumbent Lena Gonzalez (took office mid-July 2014) plus the last six months of the previous 1st dist. Councilman (now Mayor) Robert Garcia and as well as during the incumbency of 6th dist. Councilman Andrews who has held Council office since May 2007.

2014 to Feb. 12, 2017: 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.

As LBREPORT.com has repeatedly noted in discussing crime statistics, each "X" on the map, or numbers listed by us or others, represents a real person, with real family and friends. In addition, shootings impact entire neighborhoods of families and businesses not directly involved in the shooting but disrupted by police tape, blocked streets, arriving sirens, whirling helicopters, containment perimeters and sometimes orders to remain indoors.

Hard working, law abiding residents of the 1st and 6th Council district experience conditions that people in other parts of Long Beach nearly never experience, a situation LBREPORT.com has repeatedly described as "a tale of two cities."

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The number of police officers provided for Long Beach taxpayers citywide is decided by a City Council majority in adopting City Hall's annual budget (subject to a Mayoral veto that six Councilmembers can override.) The City of Long Beach currently provides its taxpayers with a budgeted level of police officers available for citywide deployment nearly 200 officers thinner than it provided entering FY10, roughly equivalent per capita to what Los Angeles would have if L.A.'s Mayor and Council cut roughly a third of LAPD's officers.

LBREPORT.com advised the offices of Councilmembers Andrews and Gonzalez of this upcoming story (Gonzalez's office in the 9 a.m. hour, Andrews' office in the 3 p.m. hour Feb. 16 and invited comment.