LAPD’s preliminary count through New Year’s Eve shows there were 382 homicides in the city last year.
at a San Pedro park, killing two men and leaving five injured; four men were later arrested.
Such stories belied the actual picture of crime in the city, where the pace of overall violence slowed in multiple categories. Last year, besides homicides, nearly every other type of violent crime fell.Aggravated assaults, which jumped up in 2021, receded last year: There were nearly 20,000 such crimes reported in the city in 2022, which was a few dozen less than the year before.
One of the few violent-crime categories that was up in L.A. in 2022 was robberies, which largely have not slowed since the beginning of the pandemic. Chief Michel Moore and other LAPD leaders have warned business owners and residents about increases in gun-wielding robbers targeting convenience stores and other shops across the city.
Even with the recent rise in killings, Los Angeles remains far less deadly today than it was in decades past: In the 1980s and early 1990s, gang wars in L.A. greatly contributed to the city’s yearly homicide numbers regularly surging past 1,000. With the city increasingly reopening as the pandemic has faded, the amount of property crimes did return to levels last seen before COVID-19 upended daily life, too, increasing by more than 10%. There were more than 101,000 property crimes recorded in L.A. last year, following dips of as low as 87,000, in 2020.
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