Today is a blue Christmas in crime-ridden Hollywood.
This past Friday night at 11:45, a Team of Four – two men, two women – staged a brazen armed robbery of the Starbucks store in the corner min-malls at Sunset and Gower.
Astounded customers – fearing for their lives, and until now foolishly believing that stick-ups like the one facing them could not happen in safe Garcetti-ville/Hollywood – were ordered at gunpoint to drop their handbags and wallets on the floor, and get down right away on their bellies while the Team of Four crooks rifled the cash register before emptying customers’ wallets and purses of cash and IDs. .
KTLA was all alone in covering this crime story. (See ktla.com/2012/12/22four-arrested-after-robbing-clerk-customers.)
Why did KTLA break with the mainstream media and report this ugly nightmare – despite pressure from Mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to stay silent on the worsening crime wave?
The simple answer is KTLA’s decision to cover the story primarily was influenced by the crime’s location, one block from KTLA’s studio.
KTLA employees face imminent danger when they arrive and when they leave.
Where is the Garcetti for Mayor campaign’s plan to eradicate the burgeoning violent crime problem in Hollywood when candidate Garcetti refuses to acknowledge the Hollywood crime wave – and the Los Angeles Times backs up his see-no-evil stance.
Instead, candidate Garcetti’s reaction is to successfully stage a mainstream media coverup.
If any major crime did not appear in the pages of the Times, it did not happen as far as the remainder of the lazy Los Angeles mainstream media is concerned.
Sunset and Vine, the most crime-ridden area in Los Angeles? You be the judge.
The Hollywood community is ranked fourth in the number of violent crimes among 272 L.A. County communities by crimemappingla.com
Visit crimemappingla.com, moderated by the L.A. Times, and employing LAPD statistics for the hard evidence backing up the above statement.
Crimemappingla.com’s current stats indicate that Hollywood has a higher number of violent crimes than the community of Watts.
Or South Central.
Or Lynwood.
Or Florence.
Surprised?
Only downtown L.A., Compton and Lancaster suffer more violent crimes than the community of Hollywood.
Have you ever seen that fact in the pages of the Los Angeles Times?
Acknowledgement might cause Hollywood advertisers to cancel their hefty ad budgets, eh Times?
Happy Hollywood news only is allowed in the L.A. Times.
Mr. Walsh may be contacted at hollywoodhighlands.org
