It happened on November 14 during daylight hours (LBPD's website indicates noon hour). An individual (independent of LBPD) indicates that the burglar(s) made forced entry with a pry bar to a front door visible from the street and ransacked the victim's master bedroom, including jewelry boxes and dresser drawers.

For context, LBPD's website indicates that just within roughly the past thirty days (since Oct. 20), there have been five residential burglaries in just the area between Bellflower Blvd., 7th St., Los Altos Ave. (east of Colorado Lagoon) and Colorado St. -- three in the 500 block of Bellflower Blvd -- and the total is six if one counts a residential burglary a bit further south on Azure Way.

• Oct. 24, 12:00 noon: 500 block Bellflower: Residential burglary
• Oct. 30, 11:05 a.m, 5600 block Azure Way: Residential burglary
• Nov. 1, 2:15 p.m., 500 block Bellflower: Residential burglary
• Nov. 9,.4:00 p.m., 500 block Flint Ave.: Residential burglary
• Nov. 12, 6:30 a.m., 500 block Bellflower: Residential burglary
• Nov. 14, 12:00 noon, 300 block Winslow Ave.: Residential burglary

In 2009, the City Council provided LBPD with a budget sufficient for 1 Sergeant and 5 Detectives for its Burglary Detail. Currently, LBPD is able to fund 1 Sergeant, 1 Corporal and 5 Detectives for that same Detail BUT has eliminated an experiment with "Decentralized Detectives" in which 2 Detectives from several Investigations Bureau Details were temporarily reassigned to East and North Patrol Divisions. In response to LBREPORT.com's inquiry, LBPD Administration Bureau Chief Braden Phillips said these Detectives investigated a number of different crimes, including some buglaries.

"The idea was to improve the flow of information between Calls for Service Officers and Detectives, which would benefit the Calls for Services Officers' proactive policing, as well as the timeliness of the investigations." The project worked well, as expected, he said.

For several years in a row, Long Beach City Council majorities have approved budgets proposed by city management and Mayor Bob Foster (Sept. 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013) that reduced LBPD funding. Long Beach taxpayers today now have roughly the sworn officer level for citywide deployment as in mid-1994 when Mayor Ernie Kell exited and Mayor Beverly O'Neill took office. Long Beach's sworn officer level for routine citywide deployment [not including officers contracted/paid for by the Port/Airport/LBUSD/LBCC/LB Transit) is now roughly equivalent per capita to cutting LAPD officers roughly 30%.

Among the LBPD resources now gone: the Decentralized Detectives operation.

During this period, Gov. Brown proposed and Dem majorities in the Assembly and state Senate enacted "realignment" which shifted responsibility for certain criminal justice duties from Sac'to to local governments to deal with Sac'to's spending budget. Law enforcement officials and prosecutors predicted that realignment would increase crime and Mayor Foster and Police Chief McDonnell have since opined that in their view realignment has been a factor in increased property crimes in Long Beach.

On Oct. 29, over 200 people attended a community meeting at El Dorado Park organized by Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske regarding residential burglaries. LBPD East Division Commander Paul LeBaron fielded audience questions and in the video clip below, an audience member asks about AB 109 (Sacramento's realignment budget measure that shifted responsibility for incarceration for "non-violent" convicts from state prison to County jails where they're often released early due to overcrowding.) In the clip, Councilwoman Schipske indicates she will seek to restore certain police resources cut in prior Council budget cycles.

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