Is it Safe Part 4

Maybe it would be less safe in West Adams and environs, if our neighborhoods weren't packed with film crews. One night recently, I encountered three different productions: a MOW on 29th Place, a law-and-order drama on Dalton, and a sorority send up in Western Heights. Most of the set cops didn't seem too concerned with their purportedly perilous surroundings, lazing about on their motorcycles, half-heartedly assisting with traffic "lock downs", or chatting up the hair girl.

I'm asked constantly about the proliferation of security bars, doors, and fences in South Los Angeles. Ugly to be sure, and unneeded in most cases, though not confined to the 'hood. A block from Larchmont Village, at Windsor and first, windows bars can be noted in every direction (see photos). It's a Los Angeles pandemic, status for some, the fear peddler's calling card for others.

Of course nobody questions the safety of Larchmont Village, save the nescient LALife (which rated Hancock Park 1.5 on its safety scale of 1 to 10, ten being most safe). As determined by J-Park judico Michah Wright, the LALife site (previously lambasted here) does little more than overlay an entire district's reporting.

Hancock Park, or Victoria Park, or Leimert Park, is therefore bunched together with neighborhoods ten blocks away, even ten miles away, merely because they share the same patrols.

A little like posting the average pool depth, and then encouraging kids to jump in the deep end.