(June 20, 2015) -- Long Beach's Second Council district had its second shooting in the Walnut Ave. area in less than two weeks. LBPD overnight Watch Commander Lt. David Faris tells LBREPORT.com that a man (adult) riding his bicycle at about 3:00 a.m. was approached by a carload of individuals who attempted to rob him of his bike. When the victim attempted to flee, someone opened fire on him, striking him once in the lower torso. Despite his injury, the victim managed to ride home...and his family transported him to a hospital. LBPD is investigating what took place as possibly gang related. [Scroll down for further.] |
A little less than two weeks ago, on June 7th, a man (adult) was shot in the 1600 block of E. 6th St. (near Walnut Ave.) [Scroll down for further.]
In other shootings in the vicinity:
At the time LBREPORT.com reported the shootings above, LBPD indicated that most were being investigated as possibly gang related. [Scroll down for further.]
In Sept. 2014, a Council majority approved without dissent, a FY15 (current) budget (recommended by both current Mayor Garcia and exiting Mayor Foster) that no longer funds LBPD's now-former field anti-gang unit. The field anti-gang unit previously deployed twenty officers plus two sergeants in gang impacted areas where they could interact with residents and gather intelligence. LBPD continues to maintain a conventional gang unit (often working indoors on investigations and the like) but L.A. County's second largest city no longer has the field anti-gang unit that LB taxpayers had until September 2012. [Scroll down for further below.] In August 2012, then-Mayor Bob Foster recommended a FY13 budget that proposed to eliminate the field anti-gang unit, and then-Vice Mayor Robert Garcia, chosen by Foster to chair the Council's Public Safety Committee, held no hearings on the public safety aspects of the Foster proposed budget. However the Council balked and voted to fund half of the field anti-gang unit using "one time" funds for a year. A year later in September 2013, again with no hearings by Garcia's Public Safety Committee on the proposed budget, the Council failed to budget additional sums for the field anti-gang unit, which LBPD scrambled to maintain at a further reduced level by drawing officers from patrol and backfilling with overtime. In July 2014, exiting Mayor Foster and entering Mayor Garcia both recommended a FY15 budget without funding for the field anti-gang unit. The Council's Public Safety Committee, now headed by Councilwoman Suzie Price (chosen by as chair by Garcia and endorsed for office by Foster) held no hearings on public safety aspects of the Garcia-Foster proposed FY15 budget (saying such an action would be "unprecedented.") In September 2014, the Council voted without dissent to adopt a FY15 budget that provided no funding for LBPD's field anti-gang unit. LB's 2nd Council district is represented by Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal, who took office in June 2006.
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