{"id":359008,"date":"2010-02-24T12:21:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f349c57970c"},"modified":"2010-02-24T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:26:21","slug":"silver-lake-residents-business-owners-ask-police-to-crack-down-on-neighborhood-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359008","title":{"rendered":"Silver Lake residents, business owners ask police to crack down on neighborhood crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/img><\/a> About three dozen Silver Lake<\/a> residents and business owners met with police Tuesday night for what organizers touted as a town hall meeting \u201cto discuss the escalating gunfire, violent crime, burglary and physical violence in our neighborhood.\u201d
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<\/br>The gathering was prompted by a string of recent incidents in the Sunset Junction neighborhood, said business owner Jeff Castelaz, including an armed robbery\u00a0at a 7-Eleven convenience store,\u00a0an attempted robbery that left\u00a0a man dead on Manzanita Street<\/a> and a shooting Monday afternoon outside of Castelaz’s\u00a0 record label, Dangerbird Records.
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<\/br>No one was injured in Monday’s shooting, which police believe was gang-related. But Castelaz said bullets struck his building and an employee\u2019s car and almost\u00a0hit a\u00a0member\u00a0of\u00a0one of the\u00a0bands signed to his label.\u00a0
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<\/br>"We\u2019ll do the best we can to piece this together,\u201d said LAPD Capt. William Murphy, commanding officer of the Northeast Division, which claims much of Silver Lake as its territory. <\/p>\n

Murphy\u00a0said crime is down in the area this year with the exception of rape and burglary. There have been 35 burglaries so far in 2010, which is 48% higher than last year, he said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Local business owners pleaded with police to do more to combat crime. <\/p>\n

\u201cI do think that crime is going up in the area,\u201d said Irma Gonzalez, the owner of Tacos Delta.<\/p>\n

She complained that police were unresponsive after a recent attempted break-in at her taco stand.\u00a0 The fact that Silver Lake is patrolled by two LAPD divisions,\u00a0Northeast and Rampart, contributes to the problem, residents and business owners said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn our end it\u2019s confusing and frustrating to be in the middle of these borderlands,\u201d said resident Thaddeus Herrick, who has lived in the area for 10 years. "I’ve always felt safe. But I’m really concerned about these escalations and spikes in crime.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

— Kate Linthicum<\/p>\n

Map: The Silver Lake Mapping L.A. Neighborhoods page<\/a>. Click to learn more about this neighborhood.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About three dozen Silver Lake residents and business owners met with police Tuesday night for what organizers touted as a town hall meeting \u201cto discuss the escalating gunfire, violent crime, burglary and physical violence in our neighborhood.\u201d\u00a0The gathering was prompted by a string of recent incidents in the Sunset Junction neighborhood, said business owner Jeff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}