hey Democrats should love ICE because they can do the usual pointing at the same stats they typically use "proving" the crime rate has gone down.
so lets pat LA politicians on the back for significantly "reducing crime" this summer as the stats "prove".
Data obtained by The Times show a citywide decrease in calls for help to the LAPD during the months when immigration enforcement ramped up, causing concern about domestic violence and other crimes going unreported.
www.latimes.com
After ICE raids surged this summer, calls to LAPD plummeted
At the same time that federal immigration enforcement ramped up across the Los Angeles area this summer, calls for help to local police plummeted.
Emergency dispatch data reviewed by The Times show a major decrease in LAPD calls for service in June, during the weeks when sweeps by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies were met by large street protests in downtown Los Angeles.
In a city where roughly a third of the population is foreign-born, the steep decline in calls adds to long-standing concerns from advocates that aggressive immigration enforcement leads to domestic abuse and other crimes going unreported because victims fear triggering deportations.
In the two weeks after June 6, when the immigration raids kicked off, LAPD calls for service fell 28% compared with the same period last year — an average of roughly 1,200 fewer calls per day.
LAPD officers responded to roughly 44,000 calls for service in that two-week span — versus nearly 61,000 calls during the same days in June 2024.
The calls include reports of serious crimes, such as home break-ins and domestic disputes, along with instances when the public has sought help with noisy neighbors, loud parties and other routine matters.
The data analyzed by The Times do not include all 911 calls — only LAPD calls for service, which are typically registered when a squad car is dispatched. Though multiple people may call 911 in connection with a single incident, in most cases only one LAPD call for service is recorded.
The decrease was especially noticeable for LAPD calls responding to suspected domestic violence and other incidents related to family disputes, which fell this year by 7% and 16%, respectively, after the ICE activity increased. Although family-related calls later began to creep back to 2024 levels, those for domestic incidents kept declining.