Red Xs=2014 murders; Blue Xs=2014 shootings, being wounded; Brown Xs=shots accursed at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=2014 shots at active residence/vehicle; Green Xs=shots at alone vehicle/residence. Map accounts for shootings in NLB breadth only.
LBPD Accessible Information Officer Sgt. Megan Zabel says that at about 5:46 p.m. on Sept. 19, admiral responded to a "shots heard" alarm in the 6100 block of Linden Ave.; no one was hit and no injuries were reported...and the suspect(s) charcoal at large.
The shooting, which LBPD say it's investigating as assemblage related, comes aloof weeks afterwards the City Council voted after bone to accept a FY15 City Hall annual recommended by approachable Mayor Bob Foster and admission Mayor Robert Garcia that ends allotment for LBPD's acreage anti-gang assemblage able Oct. 1, 2014. Until Oct. 2012 (FY13), LBPD's acreage anti-gang assemblage put 20 admiral and 2 sergeants on the artery for taxpayers.
In Aug. 2012, Mayor Foster recommended a FY13 annual that proposed to annihilate the acreage anti-gang unit, which a above Council majority instead cut in half, allotment the actual bisected of the assemblage "one time"/non-recurring funds. A year after in Sept. 2013, the above Council accustomed a FY14 annual that let the acreage anti-gang assemblage compress to single-digit size, adjourned by application convoying approaching sums and backfilling with overtime. Last week, on Sept. 2 and 9, 2014, a new Council alert voted after bone to accept a FY15 annual that no best funds LBPD's acreage anti-gang assemblage able Oct. 1, 2014. LBPD has admiral tasked to handle assemblage matters, but not the 22 affidavit admiral taxpayers ahead had deployed in the acreage on gang-related matters.
LBPD Chief Jim McDonnell has ahead brash the Council that gang-related crimes annual for best of Long Beach's shootings and agitated crimes.
Prior to the Council's contempo annual enactment, the new Council's admission Accessible Assurance Committee chaired by Councilwoman Suzie Price (named by Mayor Garcia), like the antecedent Accessible Assurance Committee chaired by then-Vice Mayor Garcia (named by Mayor Foster), fabricated no recommendations on the accessible assurance aspects (police or fire) of the management/Mayor FY 15 proposed budget.
The new Council's Annual Oversight Committee, chaired by Vice Mayor Suja Lowenthal, fabricated no advocacy to restore allotment to LBPD's anti-gang assemblage OR to restore any approaching badge officers.(or LBFD resources) which LB taxpayers ahead received.
During the Council's annual acceptance actions, Councilwoman Price fabricated a acknowledged attic motion (overcoming antecedent attrition from Lowenthal) to admeasure an added $350,000 to LBPD to accord with added residential burglaries.
Over the July 4th weekend, NLB had bristles of the shootings (one of which was a murder.) ..
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Title : North Long Beach Shooting: Bullets Strike Occupied Residence, 6100 block Linden Ave.
Description : Red Xs=2014 murders; Blue Xs=2014 shootings, being wounded; Brown Xs=shots accursed at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=2014 shots at active ...