LAPD to Again Provide Crime Maps
After San Fernando Valley homeowner groups criticized a ban on release of the information, the Los Angeles Police Department has announced that it will once again allow public access to maps showing crimes by neighborhood.
In a letter to a Woodland Hills homeowner earlier this month, the commanding officer of the LAPD’s Valley Bureau, Deputy Chief Michael J. Bostic, wrote: “Effective immediately, crime maps, not determined to be an operational strategy, will be available to the community upon request.”
Plotted at police headquarters, the color-coded maps are intended to help illustrate crime patterns in each of the 18 LAPD divisions.
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