Public safety and quality-of-life concerns touch every geographic area.

1. Homelessness: Main corridors in the Greater Wilshire Area

   Larchmont Villagekeywords: homelessness

2. Public safety including LAPD Wilshire Division and Olympic Division: Break In's Greater Wilshire Area broadly

   Larchmont Villagekeywords: break in, lapd, wilshire division, olympic division

3. Street Lighting has been an issue for years despite the downwind effect of crime directly correlated to lack of street lighting

   Larchmont Villagekeywords: street lighting

4. Streetlight Outages in Sycamore Square

   Sycamore Squarekeywords: streetlight

5. Streetlights on 700 and 800 blocks of S Mansfield were out, then were repaired but not timed correctly, i

   Sycamore Squarekeywords: streetlights

6. It's my understanding that graffiti removal funding has been decreased, and it seems that graffiti is more prevalent than in recent years

   Sycamore Squarekeywords: graffiti

7. furthermore, the street trash receptacles are commonly overflowing with trash — it doesn't seem that the City empties public trash receptacles according to their popularity, and often the can next to a well-trafficked bus stop will always need emptying

   Sycamore Squarekeywords: trash

8. throughout area 9, graffiti, broken sidewalks, homeless encampments, trash and dumping of large items on sidewalks, parking shortage

   Oakwood - Maplewood - St. Andrewskeywords: graffiti, dumping, encampments, homeless

9. Appalling problem with streetlight outages! At Elmwood and Ridgewood, area 7

   Larchmont Villagekeywords: streetlight

10. homeless everywhere including larchmont bl, dirty sidewalks same, small biz we currently seem to support sidewalk vendors instead, not sure what sr services are avail in my area, public safety is no brainer, parks we can always make improvements Burns Park seems to be still a nice park - I do struggle with the 10 sec crosswalk light across Bev Blvd & stopped going

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: homeless

11. Streetlight wire theft and repair timelines

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: theft, streetlight

12. Street lights out all over the area, severe potholes due to recent rains, numerous break ins in Larchmont village - poor police response

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: break ins, street lights, lights out, police

13. Street lighting that is not working throughout GWNC due to copper theft

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: theft, street lighting

14. The old style street lights are nice looking but they do not have secure bases to prevent copper theft

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: theft, street lights

15. Graffitti and trash is constantly a nuisance at the corner of Vine and Arden Place

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: trash

16. lack of street tree trimming which blocks street lighting

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: street lighting

17. stormwater flooding issues on Beverly Blvd between Larchmont and Arden

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: flooding

18. streetlight outages are terrible right now! and SB79 is going to wreck our city

    Hancock Parkkeywords: streetlight

19. Homeless people everywhere with free phones, free needles to get high which results in more crimes in the area!! LAHD is not offering financial aid to housing providers with tenants who cannot pay their rent- how can housing providers pay for mortgages, sky rocketing insurance(if any), increase in trash bills(6% every year-guaranteed) increased DWP and gas bills! Balcony & carport repairs with astronomical engineering reports

    Ridgewood - Wilton - St. Andrews Squarekeywords: homeless, trash

20. Dark streets due to copper wiring being stolen from criminals-repetitively

    Ridgewood - Wilton - St. Andrews Squarekeywords: dark streets, copper wiring

21. Street lights out on 101 freeway from Barham south to at lease Sunset-Dangerous!! Graffiti everywhere!! Kids doing graffiti on signs during the day while I am at a stop light-- No respect for private property!! There was a government report called "Broken Windows" that taxpayers already paid for that tells what need to be done to resolve these issues!! Give LAPD MORE MONEY TO HIGH MORE POLICE TO ENFORCE LAWS!! Stop letting criminals out of jail to do more crimes- they should serve full terms

    Ridgewood - Wilton - St. Andrews Squarekeywords: graffiti, street lights, lights out, lapd

22. Break-ins

    Larchmont Villagekeywords: break-ins

23. Illegal dumping and encampments on St Andrews between Melrose & Beverly

    Oakwood - Maplewood - St. Andrewskeywords: dumping, encampments

24. Way too many street lights are out consistently within Area 9, Larchmont Village & Windsor Square

    Oakwood - Maplewood - St. Andrewskeywords: street lights

25. A truck comes by and spreads out the trash/leaves

    Oakwood - Maplewood - St. Andrewskeywords: trash

26. The parks are full with homeless people, dirty with minimal maintenance

    Oakwood - Maplewood - St. Andrewskeywords: homeless

27. No one is carrying about graffiti and gangs are tagging everywhere

    Oakwood - Maplewood - St. Andrewskeywords: graffiti

28. Streetlights out everywhere

    Hancock Parkkeywords: streetlights

29. Hundreds of dim (useless) or dark streetlights

    Hancock Parkkeywords: streetlights

30. street lights 400 block of Las Palmas and Oakwood

    Hancock Parkkeywords: street lights

Showing the first 30 of 404 matched callouts. The full list is in the underlying data file; committee chairs can request it.

1. 75of 304 · 25%

   Visible homelessness and encampments

   • “Lack of street lights, blight (abandoned properties with unhoused and crime), homeless encampments”

   • “Homeless encampments, street light outages, speeding on Irving going South from third to 6th.”

   • “Street Lights, Homeless encampment or trash/belongings, Commercial vehicle parking specifically on 9th st between crenshaw and norton ave”

2. 68of 304 · 22%

   Street lighting outages

   • “Street lighting, sidewalk repairs, prostitution on Western Avenue”

   • “Street lights, perhaps replace them so they don’t have copper wiring, solar powered? Collect the trash in public trash cans regularly so it isn’t overflowing Fix the potholes on major streets”

   • “Infrastructure replacement - street lighting, sidewalk repairs,”

3. 45of 304 · 15%

   Burglaries, break-ins, and property crime

   • “Homeless camps Homeless people RVs Home invasions Trespass Copper wire theft.”

   • “Crime and safety, robberies and burglaries are increasingly common even while people are home. Make laws tougher or no one will follow them.”

   • “Homelessness, robbery/ burglary and trash on pedestrians areas”

4. 31of 304 · 10%

   Trash, dumping, and street cleanliness

   • “Illegal bad unsafe driving, sidewalks are horrible, trash issues.”

   • “Illegal dumping”

   • “The filthy sidewalks. In London, sidewalks are cleaned by the council and the shop owners and there is a pride in that. Probably the crime, but I live in the El Royale, so I am not so worried about break-ins, but I do not wear my lovely jewelry anymore. The honking and the speed of drivers in our family filled neighborhood. it is crazy how people drive, run red lights, honk like they are late to a life changing event.”

5. 19of 304 · 6%

   LAPD presence and response times

   • “1. CRIME: How about police that patrol on foot or bicycle 2. Vacant lots that remain empty and attract vagrants 3. graffiti and cleanliness”

   • “Safety- been way too many burglarys and police response slow.”

   • “Crime and police response. Nobody feels like they can leave their homes without a break in. Gangs know that the police don’t respond quickly. Sad way to live.”

6. 11of 304 · 4%

   Prostitution on Western Avenue

   • “safety, permits/construction, prostitution”

   • “The prostitution issue is by far the #1 issue for me. It affects cleanliness (the kids in this neighborhood step over used condoms and other paraphernalia daily, and its a daily disgusting mess that we residents have to clean up) and general safety (e.g. regular screaming fights in the middle of the night between prostitutes, johns, and pimps) to say nothing of the safety of the sex workers, some of whom are trafficked.”

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