The story of Los Angeles · September 26 to October 26
A month below normal citywide, with sharp pockets in Downtown and the Valley
The month closed with a South Bay Edison outage for 11,607 customers and overnight closures on SR-47 and the 110.
54 road hazard reports near Downtown LA in the last week
In the last 30 days, Los Angeles logged 58,231 vandalism reports against a usual 65,656, and 11,711 road hazard reports against a usual 12,335. Theft, assault and vehicle theft reports also came in well under their usual totals, at 848, 717 and 325.
The exceptions came in the final week. Downtown LA had 54 road hazard reports against a usual 8, and East Hollywood, Reseda, Exposition Park and San Pedro each ran around ten times or more their usual weekly road hazard counts.
Vandalism clustered too. Canoga Park had 21 reports in the last week against about 2, Highland Park 19 against about 1, and Chinatown 12 against about 1.
The period ended with a busy weekend. An Edison outage affecting 11,607 customers in the beach cities near Manhattan and Hermosa Beach stayed on the state list for about 24 hours, Caltrans closed northbound SR-47 in San Pedro and the southbound 110 carpool lanes from 28th Street to Gage Avenue, and the highway patrol logged a collision marked as a fatality at Avalon Boulevard and East 122nd Street in Watts.