{"id":1435025,"date":"2022-04-13T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1435025"},"modified":"2022-04-13T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:01:13","slug":"lapd-17-gangs-target-l-a-s-richest-residents-in-follow-home-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lapd-17-gangs-target-l-a-s-richest-residents-in-follow-home-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPD: 17 Gangs Target L.A.&#039;s Richest Residents in &#039;Follow-Home&#039; Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flapd-17-gangs-target-l-a-s-richest-residents-in-follow-home-attacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1435025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1169071737-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">LOS ANGELES, California \u2014 Seventeen gangs are targeting the city\u2019s wealthiest residents, often following them out of stores and restaurants before robbing them, according to a new task force of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>Los\u00a0Angeles Times<\/i> reported Tuesday on the results of an investigation into the phenomenon of \u201cfollow-home\u201d or \u201cfollow-off\u201d robberies, which have been part of a major crime wave experienced by residents over the past few years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2022-04-12\/17-gangs-targeting-los-angeles-mega-rich\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>More than a dozen Los Angeles gangs are targeting some of the city\u2019s wealthiest residents in a new and aggressive manner, sending out crews in multiple cars to find, follow and rob people driving high-end vehicles or wearing expensive jewelry, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no chance or opportunity for these victims even to comply. They\u2019re just running up to people and attacking them, whether that\u2019s putting a gun in their face or punching them and beating on them,\u201d [Capt. Jonathan] Tippet said. \u201cPistol whipping them as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The trend, in a city known for opulence as well as extreme poverty, comes at a time when crime overall is under a microscope \u2014 with homicides, shootings and armed robberies all at elevated levels since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and candidates in the city\u2019s ongoing mayoral race denouncing those increases as they vie for voters and wealthy donors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There have also been several robberies and violent crimes during home invasions, including the murder of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant and young designer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2022\/01\/17\/father-of-slain-brianna-kupfer-blames-politicians-for-letting-criminals-free\/\">Brianna Kupfer<\/a>. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/12\/09\/soros-funded-d-a-george-gascon-blames-the-system-for-murder-of-black-icon-jacqueline-avant\/\">blamed<\/a>\u00a0Avan\u2019ts murder on the criminal justice \u201csystem\u201d; Kupfer\u2019s father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2022\/01\/17\/father-of-slain-brianna-kupfer-blames-politicians-for-letting-criminals-free\/\">blamed<\/a> politicians who let criminals walk free.<\/p>\n<p>In the current race for L.A. Mayor, businessman Rick Caruso, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/11\/poll-businessman-rick-caruso-takes-slim-lead-in-l-a-mayors-race\/\">surged<\/a> to the lead in polls, has backed an effort to recall Gasc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, California \u2014 Seventeen gangs are targeting the city\u2019s wealthiest residents, often following them out of stores and restaurants before robbing them, according to a new task force of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}