LAPD has its work cut out as the department is down 800 police officers and Los Angeles is seeing a rise in homicides and robberies.
Walk of Fame – known across the globe as one of the most famous streets, adorned in the names of the rich and famous.is beginning to become synonymous with crimes. On Monday, we buckled up with LAPD to find out what's really going down.Captain Ray Valois.
"You’ll have a victim walking back to their car, maybe from a night out, and a suspect will come up behind them with a gun and say, ‘Give me all your money.’ Those are the ones that concern me the most and those are what I believe we had a spike in," Capt. Valois said. "There’s not a great deal of lighting on this street. So you’ll have people who enjoy the clubs but then when they walk back to their cars it is dark, they’re by themselves," He said, describing parts of Selma Avenue. "Be aware of your surroundings. Have your situational awareness."
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