Two L.A. police shootings of men who officers alleged were armed with knives Monday pushed the number of LAPD shootings this year to 23, LAPD data show.
Two separate Los Angeles police shootings Monday of men who officers alleged were armed with knives pushed the total number of LAPD shootings this year to 23, according to LAPD data.
Though above levels in recent years, the total number of LAPD shootings so far this year remains well below the number of LAPD shootings tallied during similar periods in past decades. The number of shootings in the past two years were near 30-year lows.The police shootings come amid a general increase in shootings and homicides in L.A.
Both of the shootings Monday and another that Moore said occurred July 20 involved men who allegedly were armed with knives.in the Mar Vista neighborhood, after officers responded to a call from a neighbor who reported a woman screaming from a neighboring apartment, police said. Rampart Division officers responded to the area after receiving a call about a man armed with a knife. When the man refused to comply with demands that he drop the knife, he was shot, Moore said.
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