LBPD Public Information Officer Ben Hearst tells LBREPORT.com that at about 6:45 p.m. on Nov. 22, officers heard several gunshots in the 2000 block of Lewis Ave. They canvassed the area, found bullet casings, located witnesses...but found no persons hit. There's no suspect description available with LBPD's investigation ongoing involving LBPD's Gang Enforcement section.

Jan 1, 2018 to date: Red Xs=homicides; Blue Xs= shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs= shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified); Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings; Blue * asterisk=victim hit, police unable to locate crime scene. Map is unofficial. A separate map (not shown here) shows shootings in NLB

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For context, LBREPORT.com provides a map below showing cumulated shootings in the area Jan. 1, 2014-Dec. 31, 2017:

LBREPORT.com has a continually updated chart on our front page (www.LBREPORT.com) showing 2018 cumulated shootings and fatal shootings by Council district.

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LB's 6th Council district has been represented since May 2007 by now-Vice Mayor Dee Andrews, re-elected to a third term in 2016 via a write-in campaign in which his endorsers included the LB Police Officers Ass'n PAC. In July 2018, City Councilmembers voted to select Councilman Andrews as their Vice Mayor.

Under the Nov. 2018 voter-approved Measure BBB, incumbent Andrews can now seek a fourth Council term if he wishes in 2020 without waging a write-in campaign. That's because Measure BBB included a carve-out provision that doesn't count previous write-in elections among BBB's stated three-term limit. Under Measure BBB as brought forward by Mayor Garcia, supported by City Auditor Laura Doud (as a "good government" measure) and placed on the ballot without dissent by the City Council, Vice Mayor Andrews is the only Council incumbent to which that carve-out provision currently applies.

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LBPD taxpayers currently receive 186 fewer budgeted citywide deployable officers than the City of LB previously provided. Despite the Measure A (June 2016) sales tax increase (now bringing LB City Hall roughly $50+ million more annually), Mayor Garcia has recommended and the current Council has voted to restore budgeted funding to restore 22 citywide deployable officers to date out of 208 erased by Councils that included then-Councilmembers Garcia and Andrews. (Other nearby cities weathered the "great recession" without erasing roughly 20% of their police levels for taxpayers.)

The chart below shows LB's current per capita police level for taxpayers compared to police levels provided by City Councils in Los Angeles and Signal Hill with details here

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