Major Crimes Up 4.3% in First Half of Year
Major crimes rose 4.3% in Los Angeles in the first half of 1991 over the same period last year, police statistics showed Thursday. A total of 169,928 major crimes were reported through June.
Major crimes are classified as murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, thefts and auto thefts. There were 465 murders, a 2.1% drop over the first half of 1990, but robberies rose 5.7% to 17,962. Reported rapes dropped 1.9% to 943; assaults jumped 2.6% to 22,121; and auto thefts rose 3.4% to 36,574.
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