Sunday Safety Update: 09/13/2015 to 09/19/2015

Disclaimer: Please note these maps are meant to show which direction crime is trending, areas to keep an extra eye on and places to remain vigilant in order for Central Long Beach residents to remain safe. That said, previous trends don't guarantee future trends will repeat in the same direction and patterns. Also, an absence of crime in one area, does not guarantee an absence in that same area later on. as well. 

09/13/2015 - 09/18/2015: This map looks really good overall. There is a few things going on outside the neighborhood. There are some random scattered activity outside the neighborhood border. The most obvious is on the other side of Alamitos and 17th. Since there have been two shootings in this area, keep your eye open here, be safe and stay observant. There is a weak trend showing that activity trending north east.

A lot that the map does not show is also way down. The neighborhood is seeing less dumping, less tagging and less loitering in places where the loitering had gotten way out of hand. As a matter of fact, some tagging, that had been up for up to six months, because it was somewhat hard to get to, also came down this week.

At Walnut and Anaheim, there was a burglary and a theft. It appears that is also trending north east towards Cherry and 14th. There are also a string of vehicle related crimes that start around Stanley and 11th. This is in an area defined on Next Door as Cambodia Town East. They appear to be trending South East, but keep cars locked in the south east end of the MacArthur Park Neighborhood, that could change any time.

I am still working on creating an unsolved violent crimes page, so that no victim of a violent crime in this Central Long Beach becomes a statistic instead of a name.

In Long Beach itself, there have been no further shootings and violent crimes outside of our neighborhood since the last update. I am hoping for that trend to continue. Hopefully, we get a few more maps as empty of incident as this one in the weeks to come.