Long Beach Had Three Shootings In One Day (Yesterday Aug 24)...And Just had Another One Today (Aug. 25), All In CD6/Saro)

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Long Beach Had Three Shootings In One Day (Yesterday Aug 24)...And Just had Another One Today (Aug. 25), All In CD6/Saro)

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August 25, 2012) -- Long Beach had three shootings in one day (yesterday Aug 24)...and had another one today (Aug. 25). All of four of the shootings occurred in CD6, represented since Dec. 2020 by Dr. Suely Saro Ph.D.

In reverse chronically order with most recent first:

On Aug. 25 at about 3:25 a.m. officers were sent to the 1400 block of Elm Ave. (CD6/Saro), found casings but were unable to locate a victim or suspect (confirmed by LBPD PIO Gallagher)
On Aug. 24 at about 9:22p.m., officers were sent to the 400 block of W. 20th St, (CD 6/South Wrigley) and learned that an unknown vehicle pulled up alongside s stopped vehicle, An unknown suspect fired shots at the victim's vehicle. Both vehicles fled the scene before officers arrived...while a parked vehicle occupied by a man (adult) was struck by gunfire. (confirmed by LBPD PIO Gallagher)
On Aug. 24 at roughly 9:20 p.m.,officers were sent to the 2000 block of Chestnut (South Wrigley CD6/Saro) where a vehicle parked in a driveway was struck by gunfire (confirmed by Watch Commander Lt. Paul Esko)
On Aug. 24 at about 4 p.m., a shooting occurred in the 1700 block of Lewis Ave., striking and wounding a man (adult) who transported himself to a hospital. The shooting is being investigated as possibly gang related (confirmed by Watch Commander Lt. Robert Titus.)

Since Aug. 1, Long Beach has had 16 other shooting crime scenes. They include four homicides: CD1/Zendejas [Pine/Anaheim double homicide], and CD2/Allen and CD4/Supernaw.

On the same day as three of the most recent four shootings (Aug. 24) Dr. Saro joined her Council colleagues in adopting a FY22 City Hall spending budget that doesn't restore any of 230 budget erased officers (most erased in 2009-2014 budgets and further thinned by a Sept. 2020 Council vote defunding 48 additional officers in FY21, now not restored in FY22.

During her campaign for Council office, Dr. Saro publicly stated that she didn't support restoring LBPD's field anti-gang unit. Then-incumbent Vice Mayor Dee Andrews (along with then-Councilman Robert Garcia) voted to erase funding for LBPD's field anti-gang unit along with roughly 200 other officers (roughly 20% of LB's police strength) in Council budgets between 2009-2014.

The Aug. 24 Council action leaves LB with a significantly thinner per capita police level than LA, Santa Monica, Signal Hill.

Chart shows LB police level before Sept. 2020 defunding of 48 additional officers.