LAist: Police to Patrol Westside Less, Residents Not Happy

stara

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:18:43 -0800

Is it safe to assume the West Los Angeles Division also covers the Pico/Bundy area where there has been all these recent robberies to the elderly? That's lovely That's all frail, octogenarians need- less support Good times

neckbeard

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:18:13 -0800

@7 not better protection, but at least adequate protection.

Markland

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:40:40 -0800

The only whacked out logic here is that people who pay more taxes should have better police protection. This probably isn't what Rosendahl intends, but the same logic could be applied to schools - that upper class neighborhoods should have more tax dollars pumped into them than lower class neighborhoods. Notifying the public of this change is common sense. The suggestion that the police should keep this a secret is ridiculous, and I'm sure if they even tried I'm certain the public would accuse them of a coverup.

marc22386

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:05:01 -0800

oh no, palisades won't have police protection anymore??? guess they'll just have to put gate's at the front of their driveways and hire private security. oh wait...

Juaquin

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:09:18 -0800

I like Weiss' false logic - supposedly, if you take cops from low-crime areas and put them on "dots" in high-crime areas it will be just as effective at protecting the low-crime areas. I think it's the complete opposite - you pull cops from the low-crime areas and the crime rate will climb. Maybe not very much, but it will. And then making a big public announcement is borderline retarded. If you live in those areas it's time to invest in a security system if you don't already have one.

Linkracer

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:02:19 -0800

Anyone know what the city of LA gun laws are and how one goes about getting one. Since the cops aren't patrolling my area anymore, I guess I'll just have to arm myself.

Will Campbell

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:58:40 -0800

Comparatively speaking one can call the westside statistically safer or less violent than other areas of the city. But this shuffling of forces out of one division to others is a symptomatic shell game. A leading failure of the city of Los Angeles and its leadership was, is and will be its inability to provide a police force that can adequately serve all its citizens.

Hindinwood

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:11:27 -0800

^^^ Haha, that is kind of a good point - why announce it? But also keep in mind that many of the wealthier communities in the Palisades, SM Canyon, etc. have security patrolling anyway...

neckbeard

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:49:11 -0800

you know what the police should do? take police offers away from one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in LA and then make a public announcement about it. "These people are rich, have lots of nice things, are unsuspecting, and now we're not protecting them. Happy Holidays! Have at it" I grew up in the Palisades, out by the original Getty and it is a very, very safe neighborhood but it isn't crime-free. We were broken into twice in the 14 years we lived in that house. I can't imagine we were the only ones.