To the editor: As a longtime member of the Pacific Neighborhood Police Advisory Board, I take heed to crime statistics at month-to-month conferences. I’ve commented that reported stats are considerably understated as a result of numerous crimes should not reported. (“New LAPD chief says people aren’t calling the police enough — and that needs to change,” Nov. 14)
Every time a neighbor complains a few latest crime incident, I ask in the event that they reported it. As a rule, they are saying, “No, as a result of it takes so lengthy.”
As such, reported crime is likely to be a fraction of precise crime.
Steve Freedman, Venice
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To the editor: How can Jim McDonnell, the brand new chief of the Los Angeles Police Division, concentrate on reporting of crimes and not using a single point out of what actually plagues the division?
To wit — a tradition up to now faraway from public service, so riddled with cliques and so failed that after 20 years of attempting to implement an efficient disciplinary course of, we are not any nearer to public accountability.
Larry Lang, Fullerton
