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Man Is Shot Roughly Eight Blocks Due North of Long Beach City Hall


(Sept. 27, 2014, 11:54 p.m.) -- A man (adult) was shot on Saturday night (Sept. 27) roughly eight blocks due north of Long Beach City Hall in LB's downtown-adjacent Willmore City neighborhood.


Red Xs=2014 murders; Blue Xs=2014 shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=2014 shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs=shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence. Map accounts for shootings in displayed area only.




Initial early information via LBPD Public Information Officer Sgt. Brad Johnson indicates that at about 9:30 p.m. offiers were dispatched to the 800 block of Cedar Ave and found a single victim suffering from a gunshot wound.

The victim was transported to a hospital with a non-critical wound...and the shooting is being investigated as possibly gang related, PIO Johnson says.

The shooting comes just weeks after City Council approved without dissent (in votes Sept. 2 and Sept 9) a FY15 City Hall budget, recommended by exiting Mayor Bob Foster and entering Mayor Robert Garcia, that eliminates budgeted funding for LBPD's former 22-sworn officer anti-gang field unit (in FY13 cut in half, in FY14 had unbudgeted skeleton crew of roughly 7 officers taken from patrol and backfilled with overtime.) The Council-adopted budget also didn't restore any of roughly 200 police officers eliminated in Council-adopted budgets since Sept. 2009.

Long Beach (L.A. County's second largest city) currently provides its residents with a budgeted sworn officer level available for citywide deployment (not including contracted officers restricted to Port, Airport, LBTransit, LBCC, LBUSD) roughly equivalent per capita to cutting roughly 30% of LAPD's officers.



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