West LA LAPD: Weekly Crime Report & CD5 provides overtime funds, status of LAPD, and response times
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Community-Police Advisory Board Meeting:
• overtime funds from councilmember Paul Koretz
• Status of LAPD
• West LA LAPD Response Times
Last Wednesday’s C-PAB meeting was very informative. Captain Jonathan Tom and the Senior Lead Officers gave their updates and the American Red Cross’s Alison Berglas offered a presentation on disaster preparedness. The disaster preparedness information will be in a separate posting.
Here are some facts presented at that C-PAB meeting:
Councilmember Koretz’s Council District 5 provides $100,000 for West LA LAPD Overtime
• Council District 5 has generously provided $100,000 designated for overtime funds for West LA LAPD and these funds have been used to good effect.
• How some of the overtime funds were recently used:
One of the overtime LAPD details that were funded were able to make a significant arrest of a career criminal who was doing burglaries along Pico Boulevard, Overland and Federal Avenues. The crime spree was covered in the news. There were twelve vandalisms and burglaries that had video where police officers quickly identified suspects from surveillance videos provided by the victims. The overtime funds provided by Councilmember Paul Koretz’s office was used by officers who knew who the suspects were, specifically were able to go out and look for the suspect and were able to take the suspects into custody. FYI: The primary suspect had a 35-year criminal history, was on formal probation for multiple things. He had 17 felony convictions, 7 misdemeanor convictions, a gamut of burglaries, robberies, resisting arrest, domestic violence, petty theft and grand theft and receipt of stolen property. June 2019, he was arrested on 10 separate burglary cases and received a 6 year sentence. The sentence was suspended by the Court to a five-year formal probation. He ends up committing more crimes. Again, he is currently in custody—thanks to the overtime funding from CD5.
LAPD Status: Staffing & Response Times
• West LAPD Staffing Issues: Currenlty West LA is 26 officers below its authoized/funded positions — which is significant for a small division that covers 65 square miles.
• LAPD as a whole is 455 officers short for what they’re budgeted.
• If you compare the number of officers prior to COVID and the social unrest, LAPD was funded for 10,033 officers (they actually had 10,036), so if you compare then and now, they are down 739 officers, resulting in a lot of changes in terms of closing desks and reducing responses to certain types of service calls.
• West LA LAPD Response Times:
Code 3 calls: Priority call with lights and sirens — response time with traffic, etc., now is 7.8 minutes. This means a call that dispatches officers (responding with lights and sirens), takes an average of almost 8 minutes to respond.
Code 2 calls: Priority call without lights and sirens - average response time is 27.6 minutes.
Non-coded calls: Example, noise complaint, party, fireworks, etc — average response time is 61.5 minutes (which is actually lower than the Bureau’s average).
LAPD - Upcoming Events:
• “Potluck with a Cop” at Stoner Recreation Center, Sunday, September 11, 2022 — 2 PM to 5 PM — sponsored by the Sawtelle Community — all are welcome!
• “Plane Pull” to benefit Southern California Special Olympics, Long Beach Airport - September 24, 2022
• “Trunk or Treat” at Nora Sterry Elementary School, October 11, 2022