Investigation underway after reports that LMPD officers denied service at Louisville Taco Bell

The reaction on TV of the homicide Lt the other day was an example of how LMPD doesn't really know what's going on here. He was surprised that none of the 2 dozen people witnesses a teenager's murder was willing to tell them anything. They really need to hire in some gang specialists to get them trained up on what they're dealing with. People in a gang hood will NEVER, ever talk to police or they will get shot. LMPD must now re-learn how to police. That's not an insult, it's just fact. Hire someone who's done this before and make some phone calls to other cities where they've been successful.

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"From 2008 to 2011, we have seen a 64% decrease in gang crime in the City of Monrovia, CA. In 2007, gang violence had escalated between three gangs that operated in the unincorporated areas around Monrovia and Duarte, the City of Duarte and the City of Monrovia. Two of the gangs are primarily Hispanic: Duarte Eastside and Monrovia Nuevo Varrio. The third gang is primarily an African-American gang, the DuRoc Crips. The violence was primarily between the DuRoc Crips and the two Hispanic gangs. In an effort to confront this increase in violence, the community members from all three jurisdictions came together in an unprecedented collaborative effort to reduce gang violence and stop the gangs from recruiting more children into their ranks.

We came up with a three-part strategy to reduce the gang violence that included prevention, intervention and suppression. The Monrovia Police Department came up with an innovative crime suppression strategy to immediately stop the violence. In collaboration with 18 of our surrounding San Gabriel Valley police agencies, we were able to provide extensive gang enforcement in the area. These 18 agencies each provided officers to this region over a period of several months, while investigators worked diligently to get these violent gang members in custody. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department provided additional gang units to work the area and the California Highway Patrol provided a team of 18 officers to provide extra patrol in the area, as well.

All of these resources working together as a Monrovia/Duarte Gang Task Force were able to immediately stop the gang violence. In the first 18 months, the task force was able to take over 40 violent gang members out of our community and successfully prosecute them for their crimes.

The City of Monrovia and the County of Los Angeles, with the help of Supervisor Michael Antonovich, worked together to obtain a civil gang injunction against the Monrovia Nuevo Varrio and DuRoc Crip gangs. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office was instrumental in helping us obtain the gang injunction and trained Monrovia police officers and sheriff's deputies in the enforcement of the injunction. This gang injunction has been a significant tool to help reduce gang violence in the City of Monrovia and the unincorporated county areas."