L.A.'S CRIME RATE FOR 2000 RISES POLICE CHIEF SAYS TREND IS REVERSING.Byline: Rick Orlov Staff Writer Los Angeles' crime rate rose 7.3 percent in 2000 but has begun to reverse itself since September, Police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. said Wednesday. Parks' figures confirm those released Tuesday by the state Attorney General's Office showing there was a 3.5 percent crime increase in California last year. They're also in line with preliminary statistics released by the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . in
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``Since last September, we are taking aggressive action to stop the increase in (serious) crime and are beginning to see results,'' Parks said at his monthly media session at Parker Center Parker Center is the headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department, and is located in Downtown LA. It is named for former LAPD chief William H. Parker. Originally with the prosaic name, the Police Administration Building, ground for the center was broken on December 30, 1952 . For the year 2000, Parks released figures showing there was a total of 179,999 crimes committed, compared with the 168,836 in 1999 - which had been a 30-year low for the city. At the same time, the number of arrests dropped from 37,305 in 1999 to 32,551 in 2000. ``There was a blip last year and we are attempting to deal with it,'' Parks said, by changing how officers are deployed to high-crime areas and in meetings with communities to focus on local problems. Those meetings have resulted in plans to attack such problems as prostitution, gambling and other less serious crimes. That is partly responsible for the decline in arrests, Parks said. ``For years, we have been hearing from the community that we never really solve a problem but arrest the same people over and over again,'' Parks said. ``If we eliminate the problem completely, then we don't have to arrest people.'' Parks said he also is developing plans to deal with what is expected to be a 40 percent increase in the number of people between 14 and 24 who make up the brunt of the criminal age population. In related developments, Parks reported the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. has moved forward to implement a number of changes recommended by its Board of Inquiry following disclosures of corruption in the Rampart Division. Thirty-one of the recommendations have been implemented and another 27 are included in the pending federal consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. , Parks said. Also, Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. announced a Pittsburgh firm, Liekar Strategic Solutions, has been hired to work on the Teams II computer program that is required to track police officers. Liekar had worked on a similar system for the Pittsburgh Police Department The Pittsburgh Police, or officially the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, is the largest law enforcement agency in Western Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1857 but dates back to the night watchmen of the late 1700s in the then borough of Pittsburgh. . |
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