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Our Mission: Local journalism is broken. Crosstown wants to fix it – through data. From our nonprofit newsroom in Los Angeles, Crosstown LA, we produce original stories and newsletters. We collect our data from a wide variety of publicly available sources, including law enforcement and other city government departments, such as transportation and […]
‘Mansion Tax’ illustrates depth of L.A.’s economic divide
Oct 7, 2024 · (Image generated with Midjourney) Since Measure ULA, also known as the “Mansion Tax,” went into effect in April 2023, there have been some eye-popping numbers: The sale of a single Downtown office building generated $10.2 million in tax revenue to be used for affordable housing and other homelessness services in the city of Los Angeles.
A closer look at the 327 murders Los Angeles suffered in 2023
Jan 29, 2024 · Homicides in Los Angeles fell 17% in 2023, marking the second consecutive year that the number ticked down. However, murders still outpaced the period before the pandemic, and deadly violence was chronicled in nearly every corner of the city.
Los Angeles Crime and Safety - Crosstown
Nov 18, 2024 · Data and stories about crime and safety in Los Angeles neighborhoods, looking at trends and insights around homicides, burglaries, grand theft auto, hate crimes and LAPD activity.
Calls for city services reach highest level in three years
Nov 11, 2024 · On the day before Halloween in 2023, Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive directive to improve the MyLA311 system, with the goal of speeding up delivery of services, and making it easier for Angelenos to track the status of their requests.. There have not been any major updates on the plan since, but this does not mean everything has been stable—Los Angeles just had its busiest quarter for ...
Public access to Los Angeles crime data begins to go dark
Mar 27, 2024 · Until earlier this month, the Los Angeles Police Department provided the public with an invaluable resource: records of every crime report in the city for the past 14 years. Numbering over 3 million records, it was a tally of every homicide, stolen car, hate crime, assault and act of vandalism.
Our Data - Crosstown
Where does our COVID-19 data come from? We collect our COVID-19 data on new infections from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. The data is updated daily on our interactive map. We used population data from the 2018 American Community Survey to calculate rate of infection per 100,000 residents. For the City of Los […]
Illegal dumping in Los Angeles hits highest level in three years
Oct 14, 2024 · In 2020, with the pandemic in full effect and many people fearful of getting close to others, illegal dumping in the city of Los Angeles spiked. There were more than 129,000 reports made that year to the MyLA311 system.
October Halloween celebrations mean many calls to police
Oct 9, 2024 · October means Halloween. Halloween means Halloween parties. And in Los Angeles, Halloween parties mean a preponderance of complaints about noisy celebrations that last into the early morning hours and anger neighbors.. How bad is it? According to publicly available Los Angeles Police Department data, in the last two years parties on the weekend before Halloween generated more complaints than ...