Gunfire In Zaferia Neighborhood; Vehicle Struck, 1500 block Stanley (4th dist.)
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(May 4, 2016, 1:10 p.m.) -- LB's western Zaferia neighborhood (4th Council district) heard gunfire followed by police activity last night (May 3) in which a vehicle was struck but no persons appear to have been hit.
LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson says that at about 8:20 p.m. (May 3), officers were dispatched to a shots call in the area of 15th St./Stanley Ave...and found evidence that a shooting had occurred; a vehicle was struck but no persons were hit.
The shooting was the third LB shooting of the day (May 3).
At about 6:50 p.m., after a fatal shooting occurred in NLB (near Ramona Park); a 16 year old male is dead. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)
In the predawn hours, a man was shot in Central LB (MacArthur Park area) in the 1500 block of Walnut Ave. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)
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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. A separate map (not shown here) indicates add'l shootings in NLB.
Recent shootings:
May 3, 3300 block E. 65th St., 16 yr old male shot/killed (9th dist.)
May 3, 1500 block Walnut, man shot (6th dist.)
April 30: 800 block Via Wanda, evidence of gunfire, no persons hit (8th dist.)
April 28: 300 block W. Willow St., gunfire heard, evidence of shooting found (6th dist.)
April 28: Walnut/14th St., man is shot (6th district)
April 27: 1600 block Pine Ave., man is shot (noon hour, 1st dist.)
April 27: 500 block Maine Ave., gunfire heard, evidence of shooting found (1st dist.)
April 21, 1800 block Pine Ave., man shot (6th dist.)
April 18, 1200 block E. 17th St., four people shot; one dies, three are wounded (6th dist.)
April 11: 200 block W. 12th St., male victim is shot (1st dist.)
April 11: 1900 block W. Willow St., building is hit (7th dist.)
April 10: Man (adult) shot, 3300 block Caspian Ave. (7th dist.)
April 9: Man (adult) shot, Linden/Norton (8th dist.) [This shooting just days before election day was a few blocks from the newly named Michelle Obama Neighborhood Library in 9th dist.]
April 9: Man (adult) shot, Coolidge Triangle area, 200 block E. Barclay (9th dist.)
Apr. 7: Man (adult) shot/wounded area Artesia Blvd./Butler Ave. (9th dist.)
Apr. 7: Man (adult) shot/wounded area Artesia Blvd./Butler Ave. (9th dist.)
Apr. 2: Late afternoon gunfire South St./Linden Ave., no persons/property (border 8th/9th Council districts)
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Mar. 31: 17 year old shot/killed, 1300 block E. 11th St. (6th dist. near border of 2nd dist.)
Mar. 30: Man is shot/killed, 1600 block Pine Ave. (1st dist.)
Mar. 21: Car to car shooting, 1400 block E. 14th St., no victims found (6th dist.)
Mar. 19: Gunfire, area 10th/Olive, no person hit (border of the 1st/6th districts)
Mar. 17: Man is shot, E. 10th St./Lime Ave. (borders 1st and 6th districts)
Mar. 11: Man is shot, area 1st St. between Lime/Alamitos (border 2nd district)
Mar. 6: Man is shot, area 19th/Cedar (6th dist.), found dead in vehicle 1700 block Pacific Ave. (1st dist.)
Mar. 3: Two people shot, one of whom dies, area Artesia Blvd/Butler Ave. (9th dist.)
Feb. 28: Man found shot to death, area 10th St./Norman Court(4th dist.)
Feb. 27: Gunfire hits vehicle, area 11th/Ohio (4th dist.)
Feb. 9: Man (adult) shot in midnight hour, 2200 block Spaulding St. (4th dist.)
Feb. 8: 2600 block Adriatic Ave., man is shot (7th dist.)
Feb. 6: 1900 block of W. Wardlow Rd., man is shot (7th dist.)
Feb. 2: 2200 block Lime Ave., man is shot (6th dist.)
Jan. 10: 3200 block E. Artesia Blvd. (9th dist.): Man (adult) was found shot multiple times
Jan. 9: Chestnut/17th St.: Evidence of gunfire, no persons/property struck (1st dist.)
Jan. 1: 1300 block MLK Ave. (6th Council district); no persons hit
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On Sept 15 and 22, 2015 the Council voted (without dissent) to adopt 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.
