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Priorities: Neither Long Beach Mayor Garcia Nor Any LB Councilmember(s) Agendize 21 Shooting Crime Scenes (Fatal + Wounding + No Persons Hit) Since May 5 For June 11 or (Thus Far) June 18 Council Discussion/Action; Mayor Adds Agendized Farewell Ceremony for Councilwoman now state-Senator-Elect Gonzalez


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(UPDATED June 10 from June 9, 2019) -- Neither Mayor Robert Garcia nor any incumbent LB City Councilmembers agendized an item for Council discussion or action for the upcoming June 11 Council meeting or (as of 5:00 p.m. June 10) for the June 18 Council meeting despite 22 shooting crime scenes (fatal + wounding + no-persons-hit), since May 5. LBREPORT.com lists them below.

However, Mayor Garcia did add a ceremonial item on June 11 to the already lengthy 40+ item formal agenda following the flag salute for a "Farewell Ceremony for Councilwoman Lena Gonzalez," the 1st dist. Councilwoman elected to the state Senate on June 4.

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  • May 5: Shots Fired At Late Afternoon Sunday, Wrigley Area Golden Ave. South Of Spring; Casings Found, No Person(s) Hit (7th dist. coverage here.)

  • May 5: Shots Fired After Altercation, Miss Hitting Victim Outside Restaurant In Shopping Plaza (SE Quadrant Carson/Cherry, border 5th/7th distrricts< coverage here.

  • May 7: Man shot/wounded at Market St./Pine Ave. (8th district, LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 10: no-person-hit shooting, 1000 block of Minerva Park (2nd dist., LBREPORT.com coverage here)

  • May 10: Man shot/wounded inside a business in the 4900 block of LB Blvd. (8th dist., LBREPORT.com coverage here)

  • May 11, no-person-hit shooting in the 800 block Daisy Ave. (rounds hit unoccupied vehicle and building, LBREPORT.com coverage here).

  • May 11, man shot/wounded in 900 block of Daisy Ave. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 11: Triple-victim shooting on Andy St. (LBREPORT.com coverage here)

  • May 11: Person shot/wounded in the 200 block of E. Artesia Blvd. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 12: 600 block E. Esther (Poly High Area), casings found, no person(s) hit; LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 12: Shots fired at bicycle rider, 4900 block LB Blvd. (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 14: Shots fired at two men in parked vehicle, 3000 block Santa Fe (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 18: Six People Shot (Woman Dies + 5 Adults Wounded), 1500 block W. PCH (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 20: LB Has TWELFTH Shooting Crime Scene Within Two Weeks: Someone Shoots At Woman Driving On MLK Ave. Near 11th St. (6th dist.) (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 22: LB Has THIRTEENTH Shooting Crime Scene Within 15 Days: Man Struck By Gunfire Walking In Hellman Neighborhood, 800 block Cerritos Ave. (1st dist.) (LBREPORT.com coverage here.)

  • May 27: LB Has FOURTEENTH Shooting Crime Scene In 20 Days: Man Is Shot/Wounded Mon Nite Near Front Door Of Addams Elementary School (200 block E. Plymouth St., 8th Dist., (coverage here)
  • May 30: LB Has FIFTEENTH Shooting Crime Scene Since May 7, Central LB Shooting (2300 Elm b/w LB Blvd./Atlantic, 6th dist.) Is Fatal, Leaves Man Dead, Coverage here

  • May 30: LB has SIXTEENTH shooting Crime Scene Since May 7: NLB Shooting Misses Hitting Person Driving Area South St./Paramount Blvd. (border 8th/9th dists., coverage here)
  • May 31: LB has SEVENTEENTH shooting Crime Scene Since May 7: LB Has SEVENTEENTH Shooting Crime Scene In 24 Days: Man Is Shot At Midday, 400 block E. 17th (Near Linden b/w Atlantic/LB Blvd., 1st Council Dist.)coverage here)

  • June 2: EIGHTEENTH Shooting Crime Scene Since May 7: Gunfire Strikes Vehicles Sun a.m. June 2, 17th/Locust, 1st Dist.

  • June 5: NINETEENTH Shooting Crime Scene Since May 7: Man TWO Men Is Are Shot -- And Killed -- In Broad Daylight, 5500 block Atlantic, 8th Dist., coverage here.)

  • June 9: TWENTIETH Shooting Crime Scene Since May 7 [22nd : Man Is Shot/Wounded Late Sun Afternoon, 6100 Block Atlantic (9th dist., Area Of Forthcoming "The Uptown" Comm'l Development), coverage here.

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As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, following recommendations by then-Mayor Bob Foster, the LB City Council (which included then-Councilman Robert Garcia) erased over a period of years starting in 2009 (entering FY10) 208 budgeted citywide deployable police officers (over 20% of LB's citywide deployable level) including the elimination of LBPD's field anti-gang unit.

Under Mayor Garcia, despite LB voter approval of a June 2016 sales tax increase ("Measure A") now bringing City Hall over $50 million more annually, LB's current City Council has restored only 22 of the budget-erased officers, leaving LB without 186 officers (including a field anti-gang unit) that it previously had but no longer has. (LBRPEORT.com special coverage, here.)

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