Crime spikes in several US cities confound criminologists
At a heated town forum at the Central Public Library here, City Attorney Mike Feuer and Los Angeles Police Department captains struggled to explain the spike in crime throughout the city and downtown in particular.
After more than a decade of steady drops in crime, the overall crime rate jumped more than 12 percent in Los Angeles the first six months of this year compared with the first half of last year, and violent offenses rose more than 20 percent. Some of the biggest increases were in downtown, which saw a 34 percent hike in overall crime and a 56 percent surge in violent crime.
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