Saturday, 5. June 2004
Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 5, 2004 at 12:48:00 AM CEST
LA 'on the road to Falluja'?
The LA murder rate is going up and the police chief has requested more officers. But California is broke and cannot afford to recruit.
Civil rights lawyer Connie Rice warns that with too few officers to "police humanely", parts of the city may as well be in Falluja.
Los Angeles is notorious for gang violence, but even by LA standards 2002 was gruesome. With 658 murders in just that one year, it became America's murder capital.
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