LAPD Crime Map

Do you know that the LAPD has a Crime Maps feature that allows you to search around a certain address for crimes including rape, theft from vehicle, and personal theft?

This is like the sex offender map; it is frightening to see the types of criminal activity that takes place everywhere.

My neighborhood is bad for stealing stuff from cars (purple dots are theft from vehicle):
Mike's neighborhood is different; that green dot is rape, and the orange is violent robbery.
Lewis, sharpen your claws!

Arson fires in Venice

Decent info in the YoVenice! threads here and here.



And if arson bores you, maybe you will be interested in a 70-person street brawl.

Adventures in public transportation

Picture me rolling!



Update on 3.18: This trip was easy, and I would do it again. Highlights include listening to the people next to me talk about how tarot cards are from the devil and racist tattoo artists. Walking by this bus stop today I saw a guy clipping his fingernails while skateboarding.

Man and dog shot in home invasion

Aslan!