LOS ANGELES : LAPD to Release Data on Crime Trends Across City
The Los Angeles Police Department, under pressure to release information about crime trends across the city, will make public a number of documents sometime next week, an LAPD spokesman said Wednesday.
At issue are reports compiled by each of the department’s 18 geographic areas in which crime data and other information has been analyzed by LAPD officials. Cmdr. David J. Gascon, who noted that the crime data already is a matter of public record and is routinely made public by the LAPD, said the department will release that information but will delete references to the LAPD’s proposed responses to the problems.
“The crime report data is something that we make a practice of releasing,” Gascon said.
Gascon said only information that highlights operational plans of the department or that threatens to invade privacy rights will be withheld.
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