Saturday Afternoon Gunfire: Olive Ave./10th St...One Block East of Where Man Was Shot Two Days Earlier

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(Mar. 19, 2016) -- Two days after a man was shot (May 17) in the area of 10th/Lime, gunfire flew about a block east on Saturday afternoon (Mar. 19) in the area of 10th/Olive basically on the border of the 1st/6th Council districts.

No person was hit on Mar. 19...but evidence of a shooting was found in the area of 10th St./Olive Ave., says LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson. Both shooting locations -- the "hit" shooting on March 17 and the "no hit" gunfire on Mar 19 -- are roughly 7/10 of a mile due north of the March 19 "Beach Streets" bicycle/pedestrian event.

Earlier on Mar. 19, a man was shot and killed in the predawn hours near the WLB city-limits.

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2014 to date: 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. Separate maps (not shown here) indicate add'l shootings in NLB.

On Sept 15 and 22, 2015 the Council voted (without dissent) for a FY16 budget, recommended by Mayor Robert Garcia, that failed to restore LBPD's former field anti-gang unit. It leaves LB taxpayers with a budgeted police level for citywide deployment roughly equivalent per capita to what L.A. would have if L.A.'s Mayor and Council cut roughly 30% of LAPD's officers.

In August 2012, Mayor Foster first recommended the budgeted elimination of LBPD's field anti-gang unit. The Council balked, funded the unit at half strength for a year, but in subsequent years quietly let it disappear. Then-Vice Mayor Garcia (chosen by Foster to chair the Council's Public Safety Committee in mid-2010) held no hearings on Foster's proposal or any public safety impacts of Foster's budget recommendations. Councilwoman Suzie Price, whom Mayor Garcia named to chair the Public Safety Committee in 2014, has followed that practice regarding Garcia's budget recommendations.