LAPD Struggles to Hire as Crime Is Up and Arrests Are Down

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore speaks during a vigil with members of professional associations and the interfaith community at Los Angeles Police Department headquarters in Los Angeles, on June 5, 2020. Mark J. Terrill/File/AP Photo

Crime is up in Los Angeles while the city’s police department (LAPD) struggles to recruit new officers, officials said at the July 19 police commissioners’ meeting.

The data presented by LAPD Chief Michel Moore compares numbers from the period between Jan. 1 to July 9 of this year to the same period in the past two years.