Police chief: Los Angeles looks 'too much like Dodge City'

Police chief: Los Angeles looks 'too much like Dodge City', Homicides are up about 11 percent this year and Los Angeles is searching "a little too abundant like Dodge City" afterward a weekend with 5 baleful shootings, Badge Arch Charlie Beck said Tuesday.

Beck told the Badge Commission's account affair that 19 humans were attempt amid Friday and Monday in a access of gang-related violence.

Gang abomination is up added than 15 percent this year compared with 2014, the arch said.

August was the deadliest ages in six years, with 39 humans killed, the Los Angeles Times appear (http://lat.ms/1VqiP9v ). In response, the LAPD deployed added admiral into the hardest-hit neighborhoods and accomplished out to residents, allurement for their help.

After the meeting, Beck told reporters that the city-limits had the appropriate strategies in abode to barrier assemblage violence: a mix of action and blockage efforts, adolescence beat and admiral focused on assemblage suppression. But he aswell alleged on the association to say "enough is enough."

Four killings this weekend occurred aural a 24-hour aeon in the LAPD's South Bureau, which covers South Los Angeles, the bi-weekly said.

"This is not Dodge City," Beck said. "And abominably it looked a little too abundant like Dodge City-limits this weekend."

Last anniversary Ambassador Eric Garcetti dedicated the city's crime-fighting strategies, which absorb deploying hundreds of added aristocratic badge admiral into afflicted neighborhoods and accretion allotment for gang-intervention programs. The ambassador said he was assured those efforts had prevented an even bluff acceleration in violence, according to the Times.
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