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    In LA neighborhood, homicides increase amid fears of gentrification

    LOS ANGELES — Last summer, something other than COVID-19 began to trouble Eddi Ortiz. Two Los Angeles Police Department detectives stopped by his coffee shop, Holy Grounds Coffee and Tea. They were investigating a shooting and wanted to review video footage from the security cameras. Ortiz obliged but felt unsettled. He was often hearing about cars and businesses being broken into — and now, ...
    by Ruben Vives and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Los Angeles Times Jan 13, 2022 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES — Last summer, something other than COVID-19 began to trouble Eddi Ortiz.

    Two Los Angeles Police Department detectives stopped by his coffee shop, Holy Grounds Coffee and Tea. They were investigating a shooting and wanted to review video footage from the security cameras.

    Ortiz obliged but felt unsettled.

    He was often hearing about cars and businesses being broken into — and now, another shooting.

    Ortiz’s informal tally was confirmed by police statistics. Crime was getting worse in El Sereno, a tight-knit, majority-Latino section of Los Angeles wedged between Lincoln Heights, South Pasadena and Alhambra.

    Gun violence and homicides have skyrocketed citywide in the last two years, mirroring a surge across the nation thought to be linked in part to the social instability from a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.

    In 2021, Los Angeles recorded nearly 400 homicides, the highest

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