In Los Angeles, as in the country generally, blacks commit more crimes per capita than Latinos, who commit more crimes than whites. Thus, in those parts of Los Angeles where Latinos have supplanted blacks, crime has gone down accordingly.But the biggest demographic shift that has occurred during my career with the LAPD has been the steady influx of Latinos into neighborhoods that were once all but exclusively black. The decline in crime – particularly violent crime – that has accompanied this transformation is not a coincidence. ...
Another effect of this demographic shift lies in the under-reporting of crime. Illegal aliens are often reluctant to report crimes to the police, this despite the many accommodations [5] made for them in Los Angeles.
PJ Media » Crime Down in L.A., Local Newspaper Baffled
By Jack Dunphy On January 4, 2013
When the crime experts are baffled, I’m here to help.
The Los Angeles Times reported [1] last week that crime in the city of Los Angeles has dropped for the tenth straight year. As is often the case, criminologists are at pains to explain why. Note that there are always ready explanations when crime goes up. You simply point to whatever socioeconomic malady that happens to be occurring and blame it for any concurrent rise in the crime rate.
Recession? Crime goes up.
Housing slump? Ditto.
Rise in unemployment? Uh huh. You get the idea.
It all fits in nicely with the poverty-causes-crime meme accepted as gospel by many on the Left and even some on the Right.
But here in Los Angeles the economic news has been even worse these past few years than it has been in the country as a whole. Though it’s been trending downward lately, the unemployment rate in L.A. [2] has been above 9 percent for four years. And though the real estate market has begun to rebound [3], home prices in some areas of Southern California are still far below [4] the highs seen back in 2006. If hard economic times did indeed cause crime to rise as we’ve so long been told, one would expect Los Angeles to have seen some correspondingly bleak crime figures. And yet crime has continued on this ten-year downward trend. How to explain it?
An expert consulted by the Times was perplexed. “The fact that [crime in] Los Angeles has continued to decline, especially when several factors haven’t been as good as they could be — it’s remarkable, frankly,” U.C. Irvine criminologist Charis Kubrin told the Times. “I’m puzzled.”
I’m not.
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The Los Angeles Times reported [1] last week that crime in the city of Los Angeles has dropped for the tenth straight year. As is often the case, criminologists are at pains to explain why. Note that there are always ready explanations when crime goes up. You simply point to whatever socioeconomic malady that happens to be occurring and blame it for any concurrent rise in the crime rate.Recession? Crime goes up.
Housing slump? Ditto.
Rise in unemployment? Uh huh. You get the idea.
It all fits in nicely with the poverty-causes-crime meme accepted as gospel by many on the Left and even some on the Right.
But here in Los Angeles the economic news has been even worse these past few years than it has been in the country as a whole. Though it’s been trending downward lately, the unemployment rate in L.A. [2] has been above 9 percent for four years. And though the real estate market has begun to rebound [3], home prices in some areas of Southern California are still far below [4] the highs seen back in 2006. If hard economic times did indeed cause crime to rise as we’ve so long been told, one would expect Los Angeles to have seen some correspondingly bleak crime figures. And yet crime has continued on this ten-year downward trend. How to explain it?
An expert consulted by the Times was perplexed. “The fact that [crime in] Los Angeles has continued to decline, especially when several factors haven’t been as good as they could be — it’s remarkable, frankly,” U.C. Irvine criminologist Charis Kubrin told the Times. “I’m puzzled.”
I’m not.
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