Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva revealed Wednesday that homicides were up 95% this year over the same period in 2020, and said his department would issue more concealed carry permits to let citizens to defend themselves.
NEW: @LACoSheriff releases new 2021 crime stats for L.A. County vs same time period in 2020.
Homicides: ⬆️ 95%
GTA: ⬆️ 40%
Rape: ⬆️ 7.8%
Agg. Assault: ⬆️ 12.9%
Arson: ⬆️ 22%He says LASD will start processing more CCW permits due to “less cops, more crooks, less consequences.”
— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) June 2, 2021
The county ended 2020 with a 36% increase overall in violent crime, Villanueva said, making the increase in violent crimes thus far in 2021 all the more striking. “All huge numbers, all very, very troublesome.” He said that the rise in crime was an “existential threat,” along with homelessness and the passage of poorly conceived criminal justice reform.
He said the crime was worst in African American and Latino communities, and criticized the county’s Board of Supervisors for failing to address the issue.
Recognizing that the threat of crime to residents was increasing, Villanueva said, the department would accelerate the issuing of “carry a concealed weapon” (CCW) permits.
The Biden administration, when asked about the nationwide crime wave, has cited guns as the problem. But to Villanueva, at least, guns among law-abiding citizens maybe part of the solution, providing protection police cannot.
Villanueva has been a consistent opponent of efforts by Democrats to “defund the police,” and noted the LASD had been forced to cut 1310 positions in the past year, after being cut by $145 million, with $143 million more in cuts coming.
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so sad, to bad…cities and states rum by demorats are now shit holes. increasing ccw permits will not resolve the situation. the pedophile’s gun control is a grotesque foley, as is all of his policies. the gay muslin terrorist obama was a complete failure. “gun free zones” do not apply to criminals and terrorist only to law biding civilians.
“increasing ccw permits will not resolve the situation”
Perhaps not but it might make some of us feel safer. If the left considers it is okay to disarm us to make themselves “feel safer” (and I actually had one admit that while disarming me would not actually MAKE him safer it would make him FEEL safer) then it is okay for us to arm ourselves in order to feel safer. I have a very nice little Israeli made .40 S&W semi-auto pistol with hand carved wood grips that would look.just dandy on my hip. I could wear it with my T-shirt that reads “I do not carry because I am afraid. I carry so I do not need to be afraid.”
Al is a “conservative” D. Meaning he is not a liberal as they generally. are.
I voted for him. I also vote for winners who let me down.
He is the best Sheriff since Pete Pitches. Which puts Sherriff a little ahead of LAPD. LAPD has has 2, good chiefs the last 70 yers: Daryhl Gates and Bill Parker – almost 60 years ago.
DISCLAIMER: I have known many Deputies but non were friend. I have had many friends in LAPD. One , Detective Nic C, my steady handball partner between ’77 and ’90 ; has (as do I) visible reminders of the war. We both had been bladed by Commies!
You have to be really old to remember Pete and Bill. I am.
I am all for more concealed carrying. Texas is on the verge of Constitutional carry. However, replacing law enforcement with armed citizenry enforcing the laws which are being violated upon them is asking for trouble.
Likewise, a steep increase in background checks for permits is a dangerous situation. We’ve already seen the failures of the federal authorities to adequately and efficiently process the checks, pencil-whipping and passing them through unchecked with sometimes disastrous results. God knows what will slip through in a flood of requests.
This is Democrat governance. This is what Democrat leadership looks like. This is the result of not preventing election fraud.
In CA concealed carry used to be almost completely off the table, now in Los Angeles, it is coming back.
CC is a great deterrent altho, after moving to Utah where open carry is very popular, I’d say seeing so many guns on a day-to-day basis in all walks of life is an even greater deterrent.
Still, I think if this takes off, the uncertainty of now knowing makes even hardened criminals hesitate to attack.
I hope lots of studies are done to see how this affects crime numbers in Los Angeles.
Who knows?
Maybe the unintended consequences of the “defund the police” movement will be to help Americans stuck in liberal hellholes.
I suspect that it is going to require a spate of would-be muggers getting dead before the word gets out among the criminal element that discretion in target selection is increasingly called for. I’m nobody’s psychic but I predict a large number of black men will be killed or wounded in muggings gone wrong in L.A. county through the end of the year.
Side note: I truly hope Deplorable Me is correct and Texas enacts constitutional carry. Open carry utterly failed to.result in the predicted bloodbath. I strongly doubt constitutional carry will have any worse results.
Anyone with half a brain could have seen this coming.
Which, I guess, explains why Democrats didn’t.