(June 29, 2015) -- The second of three shootings within a two hour period on Sunday night (June 28) was in the area of Admiral Kidd Park in WLB (area of Santa Fe Ave. south of 21st St.) LBPD overnight watch commander Lt. Dina Zapalski tells LBREPORT.com at about 11:27 p.m., officers responded to the area of Admiral Kidd Park; initial information indicates that the victim was in the area of the park when he was approached by two male subjects [unclear if juveniles or adults], possibly gang members; a shooting occurred and the victim was transported to a hospital with injuries described as "non-life-threatening." LBPD gang units are investigating (further below.) As separately reported by LBREPORT.com, about eleven minutes later, LBPD responded to a fatal shooting in the 700 block of Linden Ave. And roughly two hours earlier, a man and a four year old boy were hit by gunfire in the 1100 block of E. 21s St. The boy suffered a graze wound; he and the man (who suffered a more serious gunshot wound) were transported to a hospital with injuries described as "non-life-threatening." [Scroll down for further.] |
As previously noted by LBREPORT.com, 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 (chronology below.) [Scroll down for further.]
In August 2012, then-Mayor Bob Foster recommended a FY13 budget that proposed to eliminate the 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. [Scroll down for further.]
blog comments powered by Disqus Recommend LBREPORT.com to your Facebook friends:
Follow LBReport.com with:
Contact us: mail@LBReport.com |
Hardwood Floor Specialists Call (562) 422-2800 or (714) 836-7050 |