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Continually updated Confirmed LB shootings (fatal + non-fatal + no-hit) since Aug. 1 and homicides since Jan. 1. On July 31, Mayor Garcia recommended a FY19 budget that restored 5 add'l net citywide deployable officers, leaving 186 such officers unrestored. On Sept. 4, Council approved this 9-0. Thin Blue Line: To view LB's per capita police level for taxpayers compared to Los Angeles and Signal Hill, click here

Elective district	Incumbent	Shootings since Aug. 1	Homicides since Jan. 1
Citywide	Mayor Garcia	31	26
Dist. 1	Gonzalez	11	10(Most recent here)
Dist. 6	Andrews	5 (Most recent here)	4
Dist. 8	Austin	2	5 (one crime scene had 2 deceased)
Dist. 9	Richardson	4	3
Dist. 2	Pearce	3	2
Dist. 7	Uranga	2	1
Dist. 4	Supernaw	2
Dist. 5	Mungo	1	1
Dist. 5/7 (border)	Mungo/Uranga	1

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Recently	Weeks Ago	Past Few Months
Two Add'l Sizable Contributions To Garcia/Doud "Good Gov't" Campaign Committee For Measures AAA-DDD: John Molina ($5,000) and LB Collective Ass'n ($5,000) Subsequent coverage above On Tuesday Afternoon, City Council's Public Safety Committee (Price, Supernaw, Austin) Will Discuss (1) LBPD's Use Of Tiger Connect (Self-Deleting Text Message App) And (2) LBFD Firefighting Technologies for High Rise Fires Drive-By Shooting Misses Hitting Woman, Area 4th St. West Of Orange Cambodian Community Rally For Measure DDD (Redistricting Comm'n) Distributes Lawn Signs Also Supporting Measures AAA, BBB and CCC; AND Equity for Cambodians Supporters Say They'll Press For Council Action Immediately -- Not Wait Until After 2020 Elections -- To Re-Draw New Council Dist. Lines For 2020 Elections In Dists. 2, 4, 6, 8 City Hall Mum After Council Closed Session Indicating Negotiation Of Price/Terms Re Boeing Property (2400 Wardlow East of Cherry) In Depth / Perspective: These LB Incumbents Are Busily Seeking Contribs To Their Now-Tripled, Now-Politically-Weaponized "Officeholder Accounts" In Depth / VIDEO: Expert Cites Distances Where Deaths And Serious Health Effects Could Result From Release Of Hydrofluoric Acid (HF), Prompting SCAQMD To Launch Rulemaking That May Or May Not Phase Out Modified Hydrofluoric Acid (MHF) At Valero Wilmington And Torrance/ToRC Refineries City Mgm't Will Pay Firm Nearly $100k To (Again) Send "Informational" Mailers To Likely Voters With Content City Says Doesn't Advocate "Yes" Or "No" Vote Re Mayor/Council Sought Ballot Measures; City Will Also Insert Material In City Utility Bills Gov Signs These Two Bills Giving Sac'to Add'l Control Over Housing Land Uses -- On Factors Incl. Density, Demographics & Location -- In Long Beach, Regionally And Statewide [Update] City Mgr. sent letter urging Gov to veto SB 828 and opposed it as it advanced; LB Mayor/Council publicly mum while both bills advanced	Gov Vetoes Bill That Would Have Started Middle/High School Schooldays No Earlier Than 8:30 a.m. CA PTA & American Academy of Pediatrics supported it; CA Teachers Ass'n and statewide School Boards Ass'n opposed; State Senators Lara and Nguyen voted "yes"; Ass'yman O'Donnell voted "no" Follow-Up: Senator Wiener Says He'll Re-Introduce 4 a.m. Bar Bill After Veto'ing Gov Brown Is Gone Free Guided Nature Walk Thru Los Cerritos Wetlands, Saturday Oct. 6; Details Here Your Smartphone Or Wireless Device Probably Sent You a LOUD TEST Emergency Alert On Wednesday Oct. 3, at 11:18 a.m., Part Of Nationwide TEST Governor Vetoes SB 905 (4 a.m. bar bill) LBPD Detectives Believe Murder Suspect Is A Male Black, But No Motive Determined Or Arrest Made, In Fatal Shooting Of LBCC Student Guy Alford (Atlantic/52nd St.) In Detail: See How High Waves Could Be (Or Not Be), Where And How Often Along LB's Shoreline With Possible Breakwater Modifications Perspective: City Mgm't (Again) Creates "Informational" Flier On Mayor/Council Sought Charter Amendments, (Again) Omits Key Information, (Again) Contends It's Not Advocacy (You Decide) Perspective: Equal To Or Worse Than Compton: These Two LB Council Districts Combined Have Had As Many Or More Criminal Homicides Thus Far In 2018 Than Compton Shots Fired, 6700 Block Cherry Ave. Follow the Money: See Who Gave Early Money To Mayor Garcia's Ballot Measure Committee (Renamed Garcia/Doud "Good Government" Committee For This Election) To Fund Campaign For Charter Amendments AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD	Veteran Reporter Joe Segura, Sic Transit Joe Segura, a reporter whose name will always be associated with the PressTelegram but whose byline also appeared in later years on LBREPORT.com has passed away. Follow-Up: See Detailed Text From Corps of Engrs Document Re Projected LB Infrastructure Impacts And Protective Measures Needed For Two Breakwater Reconfiguration Alternatives 20 Yr Old LBCC Student Is Found Shot To Death, 52nd/Atlantic (8th dist.) It's second 8th dist. shooting in less than 30 days, and on June 28, a woman was fatally shot in nearby Carmelitos housing project In Depth Coverage: SCAQMD Committee Hears Expert Describe Lethal Levels At Various Distances If Hydrofluoric Acid Accidentally Released, Directs Formal Rulemaking To Phase-Out Modififed Hydrofluoric Acid (MHF) At LB-Adjacent Valero Wilmington And Torrance/ToRC Refineries Board action by May 2019 UNLESS add'l technical info provided showing "enhanced mitigation" will adequately reduce public risk, inviting possible "Memorandum of Understanding" (contractual agreement instead of formal rule) SCAQMD staff has estimated the refineries could convert to a safer chemical for roughly $300 Mil-$600 Mil

Recently

Weeks Ago

Past Few Months

Two Add'l Sizable Contributions To Garcia/Doud "Good Gov't" Campaign Committee For Measures AAA-DDD: John Molina ($5,000) and LB Collective Ass'n ($5,000)

Subsequent coverage above On Tuesday Afternoon, City Council's Public Safety Committee (Price, Supernaw, Austin) Will Discuss (1) LBPD's Use Of Tiger Connect (Self-Deleting Text Message App) And (2) LBFD Firefighting Technologies for High Rise Fires

Drive-By Shooting Misses Hitting Woman, Area 4th St. West Of Orange

Cambodian Community Rally For Measure DDD (Redistricting Comm'n) Distributes Lawn Signs Also Supporting Measures AAA, BBB and CCC; AND Equity for Cambodians Supporters Say They'll Press For Council Action Immediately -- Not Wait Until After 2020 Elections -- To Re-Draw New Council Dist. Lines For 2020 Elections In Dists. 2, 4, 6, 8

City Hall Mum After Council Closed Session Indicating Negotiation Of Price/Terms Re Boeing Property (2400 Wardlow East of Cherry)

In Depth / Perspective: These LB Incumbents Are Busily Seeking Contribs To Their Now-Tripled, Now-Politically-Weaponized "Officeholder Accounts"

In Depth / VIDEO: Expert Cites Distances Where Deaths And Serious Health Effects Could Result From Release Of Hydrofluoric Acid (HF), Prompting SCAQMD To Launch Rulemaking That May Or May Not Phase Out Modified Hydrofluoric Acid (MHF) At Valero Wilmington And Torrance/ToRC Refineries

City Mgm't Will Pay Firm Nearly $100k To (Again) Send "Informational" Mailers To Likely Voters With Content City Says Doesn't Advocate "Yes" Or "No" Vote Re Mayor/Council Sought Ballot Measures; City Will Also Insert Material In City Utility Bills

Gov Signs These Two Bills Giving Sac'to Add'l Control Over Housing Land Uses -- On Factors Incl. Density, Demographics & Location -- In Long Beach, Regionally And Statewide
[Update] City Mgr. sent letter urging Gov to veto SB 828 and opposed it as it advanced; LB Mayor/Council publicly mum while both bills advanced

Gov Vetoes Bill That Would Have Started Middle/High School Schooldays No Earlier Than 8:30 a.m.
CA PTA & American Academy of Pediatrics supported it; CA Teachers Ass'n and statewide School Boards Ass'n opposed; State Senators Lara and Nguyen voted "yes"; Ass'yman O'Donnell voted "no"

Follow-Up: Senator Wiener Says He'll Re-Introduce 4 a.m. Bar Bill After Veto'ing Gov Brown Is Gone

Free Guided Nature Walk Thru Los Cerritos Wetlands, Saturday Oct. 6; Details Here

Your Smartphone Or Wireless Device Probably Sent You a LOUD TEST Emergency Alert On Wednesday Oct. 3, at 11:18 a.m., Part Of Nationwide TEST

Governor Vetoes SB 905 (4 a.m. bar bill)

LBPD Detectives Believe Murder Suspect Is A Male Black, But No Motive Determined Or Arrest Made, In Fatal Shooting Of LBCC Student Guy Alford (Atlantic/52nd St.)

In Detail: See How High Waves Could Be (Or Not Be), Where And How Often Along LB's Shoreline With Possible Breakwater Modifications

Perspective: City Mgm't (Again) Creates "Informational" Flier On Mayor/Council Sought Charter Amendments, (Again) Omits Key Information, (Again) Contends It's Not Advocacy (You Decide)

Perspective: Equal To Or Worse Than Compton: These Two LB Council Districts Combined Have Had As Many Or More Criminal Homicides Thus Far In 2018 Than Compton

Shots Fired, 6700 Block Cherry Ave.

Follow the Money: See Who Gave Early Money To Mayor Garcia's Ballot Measure Committee (Renamed Garcia/Doud "Good Government" Committee For This Election) To Fund Campaign For Charter Amendments AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD

Veteran Reporter Joe Segura, Sic Transit

Joe Segura, a reporter whose name will always be associated with the PressTelegram but whose byline also appeared in later years on LBREPORT.com has passed away.

Follow-Up: See Detailed Text From Corps of Engrs Document Re Projected LB Infrastructure Impacts And Protective Measures Needed For Two Breakwater Reconfiguration Alternatives

20 Yr Old LBCC Student Is Found Shot To Death, 52nd/Atlantic (8th dist.)
It's second 8th dist. shooting in less than 30 days, and on June 28, a woman was fatally shot in nearby Carmelitos housing project

In Depth Coverage: SCAQMD Committee Hears Expert Describe Lethal Levels At Various Distances If Hydrofluoric Acid Accidentally Released, Directs Formal Rulemaking To Phase-Out Modififed Hydrofluoric Acid (MHF) At LB-Adjacent Valero Wilmington And Torrance/ToRC Refineries

Board action by May 2019 UNLESS add'l technical info provided showing "enhanced mitigation" will adequately reduce public risk, inviting possible "Memorandum of Understanding" (contractual agreement instead of formal rule)

SCAQMD staff has estimated the refineries could convert to a safer chemical for roughly $300 Mil-$600 Mil