For three years, law enforcement across Southern California have been fighting thieves who rip copper wire from streetlights, ...

This June, the city council officially declared a state of fiscal emergency due to the roughly $1 billion current shortfall, a number that city officials predict will only get bigger. The tightening ...

Overall crime in Los Angeles fell nearly 11% last year. As the coronavirus pandemic upended life across the region, there were 192,438 crimes reported in the city, down from the 215,763 in 2019, ...

News reports about retail theft were inescapable in 2023, and when the year came to an end Los Angeles had entered unprecedented territory: There were 11,945 shoplifting reports in the city, according ...

The number of Black people arrested for marijuana-related offenses in Los Angeles has only increased since the 2018 legalization.

Property values in Los Angeles County have been on a tear, but several communities have seen a meteoric rise.

The city of Los Angeles suffered 382 murders last year. It is a death toll that sends a decidedly mixed message. It is down 3.8% from the 397 homicides recorded in 2021. But the figure, once again ...

Last year, the city of Los Angeles recorded more than 300 murders for the first time in more than a decade. When 2020 ended, there had been 343 homicides, a 34% increase from the previous year. This ...

Had it not been for an sharp rise in Asian residents, Los Angeles County’s population would have been pretty much flat this past decade.

When domestic violence victims get a restraining order, abusers routinely violate them with no consequences.

The city of Los Angeles hit a grim record last year, recording a 56% spike in hate crimes. There were 594 reported crimes in which a victim was targeted based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual ...