Crime rate dropped in the city of Los Angeles this summer, with 84 homicides through the end of August, the lowest murder rate in more than 30 years, police Chief William Bratton said on Tuesday.
Homicides were down 8.5 percent and gang-related killings had declined 27 percent compared to this time last year, according to Bratton.
In contrast, there were 323 murders during the summer of 1991, Bratton said.
Compared to this time last year, rapes were down 14.2 percent; robberies were down 4.1 percent; and aggravated assaults were down 6 percent. Overall violent crime has declined 5.4 percent, said Bratton.
Burglaries were down 4.8 percent; thefts from vehicles were down 5.1 percent; and personal thefts were down 2.8 percent. Tota lproperty crime was down 4.9 percent.
"As we end the summer and begin the fall -- the last four months of the year -- we are in very good shape," Bratton told the Police Commission.
"We are usually concerned with our summer months," he said, "We have had an extraordinarily quiet summer."
Commission President Anthony Pacheco said the decrease was the result of improved community relations and the Los Angeles Police Department's crime suppression activities.
Source:Xinhua
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