A rise in crime casts shadow on downtown Los Angeles

Pedestrians cross Main Street at the intersection of 5th Street in a downtown area known as “the corridor” that had the biggest jump in property crime in the LAPD’s Central Division in the first half of 2015, a threefold increase compared with the same period last year.

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Sept. 2, 2015 10:52 AM PT

Crime has risen across the city this year, but nowhere has the increase been as large as in L.A.’s hippest new domain: downtown.

People stand at a bus stop along 5th Street near Broadway in a high-crime area of downtown known as “the Corridor.”

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Pedestrians walk past a defunct jat store along 5th Street in a downtown area known as “the Corridor.”

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A man walks past a bar near the intersection of Los Angeles and 5th streets in downtown L.A.’s “corridor.”

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The sign atop the Rosslyn Hotel is silhouetted against the afternoon sky at the intersection of Main and 5th Streets in downtown L.A.

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A man sits on the sidewalk at the corner of 5th and Main Streets in a downtown area known as “the corridor.”

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A man leans out a window of the Rosslyn Hotel at the intersection of 5th and Main Streets in a downtown area known as “the corridor.”

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A woman sits on the sidewalk near the intersection of 5th Street and Broadway in a downtown area known as “the corridor.”

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Homeless people walk across Pershing Square in downtown L.A.

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A man dances at the corner of 5th Street and Broadway in a downtown area known as “tThe corridor.”

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)