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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
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On LBReport.com VIDEO Coverage: Family/Community Candlelight Vigil for VIDEO: Thuderstorm Electrifies Long Beach, Lightning Visible Across Wide Areas  Photo captured and digitally enhanced by Max Pearl Details / Opinion: Might Measure BBB (Term Limit Change) Allow LB's Current Mayor/Councilmembers 3 More Terms/12 More Years? City Att'y Says "No" But A Court May Ultimately Decide Councilwoman Price Signals She'll Vote "No" On Measure BBB (3 Terms For Mayor/Council Instead of Current Two Plus Write-Ins) Amnesia File: Amid Continuing "Possibly Gang Related" Shootings, LBPD No Longer Has Its Former Field Smash/Grab Jewelry Thieves Do This @ Sam's Club / ELB Towne Center  Photo via Lakewood Crime Awareness & Prevention Group Midafternoon Drive-By Shooting, Person Not Hit, 500 block E. Pleasant (North of Del Amo, West of Atlantic) Man Is Shot/Wounded, Downtown LB, Area 3rd. St/Pine Ave.. Attempted Robbery A Message From The Young Man Whose Grandfather Was Murdered At Midafternoon While Watering His Lawn In WLB Neighborhood Near Cabrillo High LBPD Confirms There Were TWO Shooting Victims In WLB Drive-By Crime: 69 Yr Old Grandfather Jose Corrales Fatally Shot AND A Man (Adult) Shot/Wounded While Sitting In A Nearby Vehicle Councilwoman Price Says Public Safety Committee She Chairs Will Soon Begin Potentially Sweeping Review/Update To Public Safety Element To City's General Plan Follow the Money: Grassroots LB Reform Coalition PAC Receives Over $20,000 In Contribs, Nearly All From LB Residents, In Effort To Defeat Measure BBB (Mayor/Council-Sought 3 Terms Instead of Current 2 Terms + Write-Ins) Follow the Money: Garcia/Doud Pro-AAA-DDD Committee Shows Nearly $60k Cash On Hand With Approx. $20K Debts As Of Sept. 30 Council Public Safety Committee Treads Lightly On TigerText Issues, Mainly Avoids Confrontational Questions, Notes Ongoing City Att'y-Hired "Independent" Review As LBPD Reiterates Benign Explanation For Its 2014 Purchase/Use (Until mid-Sept. 2018 Media Reports) Of Self-Destructing Message App WLB Midafternoon Murder; Man Is Shot/Killed 1500 block W. Summit, Just Blocks From Cabrillo High and LBPD's West Division Station VIDEO: As Previewed on LBREPORT.com, Long Beach Got Spectacular View Of Vandenberg SpaceX Rocket Launch After LB High Tide Heightened By Baja Hurricane Overtops Peninsula Protective Sand Berm, Does That Change Your Views, And If So In What Ways And Why, Re Modifying LB Breakwater (Incl. Removing Eastern Third)? Retired LBPD Commander Levy Schedules Major Long Beach Conference On Safe Schools; Topics/Themes Incl. Responding to Active Shooter, Preventing Next School Shooting And Effective Threat Assessments; Details Here |
Editorial: Non-Study Session "To Receive An Update On The Queen Mary" Editorial: No-Kill Animal Shelter Advocates Spotted Issues Years Ago That Auditor Acknowledges Now; They Deserve A Seat At The Table; Council Should Agendize Discussion Of Auditor's Report; Mayor Should Add, Instead Of Exclude, No Kill Advocates To His "Visioning Task Force" Perspective: A Moral Issue: Hear What LB Fire Chief Said About Firefighting Effects Of Hi-Rise Density...As Mgmt/Mayor Again Fail To Recommend Restoring Downtown Density Fire Engine 101 Editorial: City Auditor's "Performance Audit" On Animal Shelter Gives Pols Political Cover For Budgets That Begat Issues She Identifies Attempting To De-Code Mayor/Council Code of Silence As These Sac'to Bills Advance (SB 905 (4 a.m. Bar Bill) and AB 931 (That LB Police Chief Said Could Endanger Officers And The Public) Perspective / Opinion: Long Beach Charter Amendment Hearings Shrugged This State Law Enacted After City of Bell Scandal Council & I Didn't Raise Taxes, You Did Based on statement by Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia at Long Beach City Council meeting, July 24, 2018  Editorial: Yes: On Price-Supernaw-Austin-Pearce Agenda Item Seeking Feasibility Of Administrative Citations To Deter Fireworks Scofflaws Editorial: Are LB Taxpayers Better Off Now Than Four Years Ago? Editorial: We Say These Decisions By Two LB Mayors, And Past And Present Councilmembers Endorsed By The LB Police Officers Ass'n PAC, Made The Tragic, Fatal "Amnesia File" / Opinion: How LB Residents Lost Their Right To Agendize Items For Council Discussion/Action...And Why Restoring That Right Should Be Priority Reform Now Ediorial: Mayor Orchestrated Commission Photo Op Offers More Important Agenda Opportunity Perspective: Hypodermic Syringe On LB Beach Stabs A Jr. Lifeguard...And It Shouldn't Take A Public Records Act Request To Find Out What Really Happened Editorial: The Community Hospital Deal...For Grown-Ups Statement by the Publisher / Opinion: LBREPORT.com...Now More Than Ever Op-Ed: Things They Need to Tell Us Before They Lease Community Hospital By Gerrie Schipske * * Ms. Schipske, an attorney, served two terms as LB's 5th dist. Councilwoman (2006-2014) and is the author of Historical Hospitals of Long Beach Editorial: Mayor Garcia's Anti-Reform Charter Amendments Perspective: Councilwoman Price Says She Opposes Sac'to Bill That Could Let LB Council Allow 4 a.m. Bar Closings In Parts of LB...But Here's What She Didn't Say And Hasn't Done Editorial: Apply This CA Jury Instruction To Mayor/Councilmembers Who Claim Blank Check Measure M Isn't A Tax Editorial: "Alternative Facts" In Long Beach Perspective: Did Mayor And Your Councilmember Tell You Using Cops As Props  |
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