{"id":510863,"date":"2010-04-03T19:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T23:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f80\/lapd-crime-prevention-tips-making-our-streets-safer-41817\/"},"modified":"2010-04-03T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T23:55:17","slug":"lapd-crime-prevention-tips-making-our-streets-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/510863","title":{"rendered":"LAPD Crime Prevention Tips Making Our Streets Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b><font face=\"Georgia\"><font size=\"4\"><font color=\"#000099\">Crime Prevention Tips from the LAPD&#8230;<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b><br \/>\n<b><font face=\"Georgia\"><font size=\"4\"><font color=\"#000099\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b>Although violent crimes are still at historic lows in Los Angeles, there is a signicificant increase in property crimes, particularly burglaries, amidst the current economic recession. LAPD Detectives at Devonshire Division report steady increases across our District in so-called &quot;smash &#8216;n grab&quot; theft of property out of cars. <\/p>\n<p>You can help  prevent this crime by always locking your car, ensuring that your windows are shut, and never leaving anything visible inside the car. Thieves will smash a car window to steal anything from a car, whether it&#8217;s a wallet, a purse, a cellphone or even sunglasses or loose change. <\/p>\n<p>\nThieves have been stealing mail out of mailboxes in our neighborhoods, which can lead to identity theft. So it&#8217;s recommended to put a padlock on your mailbox if possible. It&#8217;s also a good idea to use secure public mailboxes if you are mailing checks to pay bills, rather than leaving them in your mailbox for the mailcarriers to pick up. <\/p>\n<p>When you go on vacation, leave a porch light on, and cancel newspaper delivery. Newspapers piled up by the front door of a home is an invitation to thieves that the owners are not home. <\/p>\n<p>Never leave keys hidden under a flower pot or somewhere. It&#8217;s a much better idea to ask a trusted neighborhood to keep a spare set of your house keys.<\/p>\n<p><b><font face=\"Georgia\"><font size=\"4\"><font color=\"#000099\">Making Our Streets Safer&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b>We had several new left turn arrows installed in traffic signals at congested intersections in our District. <\/p>\n<p>Our report last week incorrectly stated that the left turn signals would be installed at the intersections of Reseda Blvd. and Dearborn St., and Reseda Blvd. and Vincennes St. Those intersections, which are very close to the CSUN campus in Northridge and are heavily traveled by vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists will get traffic signals. <\/p>\n<p>The left turn signals were installed at Reseda and Lassen, Reseda and Plummer, Nordhoff and Zelzah, and several other locations.  <\/p>\n<p>Info. from Greig Smith<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime Prevention Tips from the LAPD&#8230; Although violent crimes are still at historic lows in Los Angeles, there is a signicificant increase in property crimes, particularly burglaries, amidst the current economic recession. LAPD Detectives at Devonshire Division report steady increases across our District in so-called &quot;smash &#8216;n grab&quot; theft of property out of cars. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510863","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\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}