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VIOLENCE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
- Each year paramedics in Los Angeles County respond to
approximately 25,000 calls for assistance following acts
of violence. This compares to about 8,000 calls for heart
attacks.
- Emergency Medical Services, Los Angeles County Department
of Health Services
- In 2002, there were 474 homicides in the City of Los Angeles,
an increase of 23.4% from 2001.
- LAPD Crime Statistics, 2002
- In 2002, there were 949 rapes in the City of Los Angeles,
an increase of 1.1% since 2001.
- LAPD Crime Statistics, 2002
- In 2002, there were13,915 aggravated assaults/ domestic
violence crimes in the City of Los Angeles, an increase
of 4.6% since 2001
- LAPD Crime Statistics, 2002
- Of the 1,070 reported homicides in Los Angeles County
in 2000, 448 were gang-related. The percentage of gang-related
homicides more than doubled from 1980 to 2000.
- Scott Carrier, Coroner's Office; Wes McBride, LA County
Sheriff's Department
- In 2000, there were 933 hate crimes reported in LA County,
an increase from previous years. Of the 933 crimes reported
in 2000, 562 were racially based, 218 involved sexual orientation,
148 were motivated by religion, three related to gender
and two involved disability. There was a 22.7% increase
in racially motivated crimes from the previous year.
- LA County Commission on Human Relations, 2002
- Hate crime offenders in 2000 were overwhelmingly male:
89% of the suspects were under the age of 25.
- LA County Commission on Human Relations, 2002
- Each year, almost 1,500 people with intentional injuries
are hospitalized through the emergency department at the
King-Drew Medical Center. The majority of these injuries
were not gang - or drug-related.
- Paul Juarez, King-Drew Medical Center
- In surveys of 12 cities in 1998, the percentage of violent
crimes in which the offender was a stranger to the victim
ranged from 42% in Tucson to 74% in Los Angeles.
- Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics,
2002
- The victims and offenders of most violence in Los Angeles
County are of the same race/ethnicity
- Billie Weiss, Los Angeles County Department of Health
Services
- The overall number of crimes on primary and secondary
school campuses in LA County have increased by 8% between
1995-1999.
- Children’s Planning Council, 2002
- In 1999, half of reported school crimes involved a crime
against persons, or a drug or alcohol offense. The most
common category for school crimes in LA County were property
crimes.
- Children’s Planning Council, 2002
- In 1999, misdemeanor arrests accounted for 61.1% of all
youth arrests in LA County. In most areas, a majority of
felony youth arrests resulted from property offenses.
- Children’s Planning Council, 2002
- The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office prosecutes
nearly 21,000 cases of domestic violence each year with
a conviction rate of 77%.
- Alana Bowman, Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office
- In 2000, LA county had 35,740 domestic violence related
calls for assistance, this is the highest in California
(total 60,960 calls).
- Los Angeles Almanac 2002
- In Los Angeles, rates of sexual assault are about the
same for African-American and White women. (Gail E. Wyatt,
UCLA) Rates of sexual assault for Hispanic women are lower
than for non-Hispanic white women.
- Susan B. Sorenson, UCLA
- During the 1999-2000 school year, there were 1,587 student
victimization reports in elementary, middle, high, and special
education schools in LAUSD.
- LASPD, 2002
- In 1999, there were 146,583 child abuse and neglect referrals
to DCFS in LA County
- Children’s Planning Council, 2002
- The Los Angeles metropolitan area is among the highest
in the country for violent deaths at the workplace.
- Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, 1997
- Over half (55%) of the violence related workplace deaths
in California occurred in Los Angeles County.
- California Dept of Industrial Relations, 1995
- In Los Angeles County, there were 405 homicide deaths
reported in the workplace between January 1992 and 1998.
Among these, 89% were killed by a gun.
- California Dept of Health Services
- A total of 1,165 residents of LA County in 2000 lost their
lives to guns. Three of our neighbors each day, over 90
per month died in firearm homicides, firearm suicides, or
accidental shootings.
- California Dept of Vital Statistics, 2000
- 13% of LA County residents who died in gun violence in
2000 were 18 years old or younger.
- California Dept of Vital Statistics, 2000
- Nineteen LA County children between the ages of 12 and
19 committed suicide with a gun in 2000.
- California Dept of Vital Statistics, 2000
- Of all the victims of gun violence in LA County who were
under the age of 18, 13% were girls.
- California Dept of Vital Statistics, 2000
- In LA County, the highest number of gun deaths in 2000
by race were Latinos (473), followed by African Americans
(341) and Caucasians (305). The firearm death rate in 2000
was highest for African Americans (40.6 per 100,000
- California Dept of Vital Statistics, 2000
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