LA Homicides Down in January, Overall Crime Up: Police Chief

A man is arrested by a Los Angeles police officer in Venice Beach, Calif., on June 2, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

LOS ANGELES—Eleven fewer homicides were reported in Los Angeles during the first month of 2022 than during the same period in 2021, a drop of nearly 17 percent, Police Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday.

The city had a nearly 12 percent year-over-year climb in homicides in 2021, bringing it to levels not seen since 2006, Moore told the Los Angeles Police Commission.