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    Commentary: How Hollywood's homicide rate fell as assaults rose

    by Michael Krikorian, Los Angeles Times Jan 11, 2018 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - I look at crime stats the way I used to look at baseball statistics when I was a kid. Now, instead of checking on Sandy Koufax's strikeouts, I check the homicides in Los Angeles police divisions.

    The other day, on the LAPD website, I came across one stat that struck me as stunning, though in a good way. As of then - and as of midnight, New Year's Eve - LAPD's Hollywood Division had recorded two homicides in 2017: Jimmy Bradford, 47, and Bryan De La Torre, 21.

    Hollywood Division has never ranked in the stratosphere of

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