La Street Gangs Targeting Residents In Wealthy Areas Lapd Urges Residents To Be On Guard

More than a dozen street gangs are descending into affluent areas of Los Angeles, following residents into their homes and stealing expensive items, according to police. Captain Jonathan Tippet, who is leading a LAPD home robbery task force, told the City Police Committee during a meeting Tuesday that at least 17 gangs, most of them based in South Los Angeles, have organized independently robberies, sometimes using spotters to target people who wear high quality watches or drive expensive cars. A video released by the LAPD shows criminals suspected of beating a woman with a vehicle and robbing her after she left a jewelry store in the Jewelry District of downtown Los Angeles. (LAPD) Up to five loads of people pursued certain targets at home, squeezing them to steal watches, bags or cars before they had a good chance of resisting, Tippet said. In one case, a man was arrested this month on suspicion of stealing two $ 600,000 watches from a victim. On Monday, a woman was pursued by criminal suspects after she left a jewelry store in the Jewelry District of downtown Los Angeles, police said. After stopping at an intersection, one of the suspects got out of a car and broke the woman’s window on the driver’s side. The woman abandoned her car and was chased by suspects who hit her with a vehicle, held her at gunpoint and stole her watch, police said. SHOOTING IN BROUKLYN: BLUMBERG, MSNBC, DEMOCRATS AND LESS METRO POLICE “We have seen countless people injured with guns pointed at them,” Tippet said. “Many others treat the stab wounds and injuries, kicks, beatings, punches and hit them in the head with a pistol.” Tippet told Fox News that the gangs are based mostly outside of South Los Angeles, but the force has seen individuals linked to these gangs living outside the county. Tippet said the robberies took place mainly in downtown and the Wilshire area, while a significant amount in the Hollywood area. Los Angeles Downtown at Night. (iStock) Tippet said there were 165 such suspensions last year and 56 so far this year. Thirteen victims were shot, including two people who lost their lives. Fifty robberies took place in the Hollywood section of the LAPD and almost as many in the Wilshire section. Such attacks were “almost unheard of” before last year, Tippet said. MIAMI ONLYFANS MODEL COURTNEY TAILOR’S SELF-DAFINSE The claim is “SELF-SERVICE”, SAYS SLAIN BOYFRIEND’S LAWYER “In my 34 years in Los Angeles, I have never seen this kind of criminal behavior” in such large, coordinated groups, Tippet said. The task force has made several dozen arrests for robbery, gun crime and attempted murder along with four arrests on suspicion of murder, Tippet said. On Wednesday, Los Angeles sent a warning to the community, alerting residents to be on the lookout for increased home burglaries. LA COUNTY DA GASCON RECOVERY ATTEMPT COLLECTES 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS, IN ORDER TO COLLECT THE REQUIRED SIGNATURES, SAY THE ORGANIZERS A source close to Los Angeles, who wished to remain anonymous, blamed the wave of brazen home robberies on the controversial policies of Los Angeles County Attorney George Gascon. Los Angeles cityscape at dusk. (iStock) “When DA Gascon said he would not seek gang upgrades, he basically rang the bell for many of these gangs,” the source told Fox News. “It will not be long before gangs from other surrounding counties, such as San Bernardino and Riverside, come to Los Angeles to commit their crimes. Why commit crimes in their own counties when they know they will receive a lighter sentence if caught? in LA? ” Fox News left messages in Gascona’s office asking for comments. Since taking office, Gascona has issued instructions to stop requests for release from prison, to stop prosecuting minors as adults, to stop seeking the death penalty and to ban prosecutors from requesting improvements in their sentences and attending hearings. conditional release. Los Angeles County Attorney George Gascon speaks at a December 8, 2021, press conference in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) The move against the improvements – which could lead to harsher sentences for crimes such as the use of a weapon – has been highly controversial. The increase in robberies and burglaries in Los Angeles follows the growing crime trends nationwide since the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year he saw a number of organized crime gangs targeting high-end retail stores robberies up and down Golden State. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Nathan Hochman, a Republican candidate to oust Rob Boda from the post of Attorney General of California, has been investigating the robberies in Los Angeles. “With gun robberies escalating in Los Angeles and across California, we need to stop the door to justice where suspects are arrested in the morning and return to the streets in the afternoon,” he wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. The Associated Press and Louis Casiano of Fox News contributed to this report.

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More than a dozen street gangs are descending into affluent areas of Los Angeles, following residents into their homes and stealing expensive items, according to police. Captain Jonathan Tippet, who is leading a LAPD home robbery task force, told the City Police Committee during a meeting Tuesday that at least 17 gangs, most of them based in South Los Angeles, have organized independently robberies, sometimes using spotters to target people who wear high quality watches or drive expensive cars. A video released by the LAPD shows criminals suspected of beating a woman with a vehicle and robbing her after she left a jewelry store in the Jewelry District of downtown Los Angeles. (LAPD) Up to five loads of people pursued certain targets at home, squeezing them to steal watches, bags or cars before they had a good chance of resisting, Tippet said. In one case, a man was arrested this month on suspicion of stealing two $ 600,000 watches from a victim. On Monday, a woman was pursued by criminal suspects after she left a jewelry store in the Jewelry District of downtown Los Angeles, police said. After stopping at an intersection, one of the suspects got out of a car and broke the woman’s window on the driver’s side. The woman abandoned her car and was chased by suspects who hit her with a vehicle, held her at gunpoint and stole her watch, police said. SHOOTING IN BROUKLYN: BLUMBERG, MSNBC, DEMOCRATS AND LESS METRO POLICE “We have seen countless people injured with guns pointed at them,” Tippet said. “Many others treat the stab wounds and injuries, kicks, beatings, punches and hit them in the head with a pistol.” Tippet told Fox News that the gangs are based mostly outside of South Los Angeles, but the force has seen individuals linked to these gangs living outside the county. Tippet said the robberies took place mainly in downtown and the Wilshire area, while a significant amount in the Hollywood area. Los Angeles Downtown at Night. (iStock) Tippet said there were 165 such suspensions last year and 56 so far this year. Thirteen victims were shot, including two people who lost their lives. Fifty robberies took place in the Hollywood section of the LAPD and almost as many in the Wilshire section. Such attacks were “almost unheard of” before last year, Tippet said. MIAMI ONLYFANS MODEL COURTNEY TAILOR’S SELF-DAFINSE The claim is “SELF-SERVICE”, SAYS SLAIN BOYFRIEND’S LAWYER “In my 34 years in Los Angeles, I have never seen this kind of criminal behavior” in such large, coordinated groups, Tippet said. The task force has made several dozen arrests for robbery, gun crime and attempted murder along with four arrests on suspicion of murder, Tippet said. On Wednesday, Los Angeles sent a warning to the community, alerting residents to be on the lookout for increased home burglaries. LA COUNTY DA GASCON RECOVERY ATTEMPT COLLECTES 3.5 MILLION DOLLARS, IN ORDER TO COLLECT THE REQUIRED SIGNATURES, SAY THE ORGANIZERS A source close to Los Angeles, who wished to remain anonymous, blamed the wave of brazen home robberies on the controversial policies of Los Angeles County Attorney George Gascon. Los Angeles cityscape at dusk. (iStock) “When DA Gascon said he would not seek gang upgrades, he basically rang the bell for many of these gangs,” the source told Fox News. “It will not be long before gangs from other surrounding counties, such as San Bernardino and Riverside, come to Los Angeles to commit their crimes. Why commit crimes in their own counties when they know they will receive a lighter sentence if caught? in LA? ” Fox News left messages in Gascona’s office asking for comments. Since taking office, Gascona has issued instructions to stop requests for release from prison, to stop prosecuting minors as adults, to stop seeking the death penalty and to ban prosecutors from requesting improvements in their sentences and attending hearings. conditional release. Los Angeles County Attorney George Gascon speaks at a December 8, 2021, press conference in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) The move against the improvements – which could lead to harsher sentences for crimes such as the use of a weapon – has been highly controversial. The increase in robberies and burglaries in Los Angeles follows the growing crime trends nationwide since the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year he saw a number of organized crime gangs targeting high-end retail stores robberies up and down Golden State. CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Nathan Hochman, a Republican candidate to oust Rob Boda from the post of Attorney General of California, has been investigating the robberies in Los Angeles. “With gun robberies escalating in Los Angeles and across California, we need to stop the door to justice where suspects are arrested in the morning and return to the streets in the afternoon,” he wrote on Twitter on Wednesday. The Associated Press and Louis Casiano of Fox News contributed to this report.