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Mayor Villaraigosa Calls Gangs Public Enemy Number One
Crime is down in Los Angeles and Mayor Villaraigosa says Police Chief William Bratton deserves another term. The "glaring exception" is gang crime, which the Mayor says is "Public Enemy Number One." Villaraigosa is in Washington today for talks with federal officials, and Bratton says he'll release details of his new plans for taking on gangs…
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readCrime is down in Los Angeles and Mayor Villaraigosa says Police Chief William Bratton deserves another term. The "glaring exception" is gang crime, which the Mayor says is "Public Enemy Number One." Villaraigosa is in Washington today for talks with federal officials, and Bratton says he'll release details of his new plans for taking on gangs in coming days. We take a look at gang injunctions. Do they stop crime or move it next door? Do they deal with causes or symptoms?
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Vanessa Romo
LA School Report
Karen Radziner
Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?
Rocky Delgadillo
Los Angeles City Attorney
Mario Corona
Program Director of Job Development for Community in Schools
Connie Rice
Los Angeles civil rights attorney, former member of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing