{"id":99987,"date":"2016-07-03T07:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T15:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99987"},"modified":"2016-07-03T07:27:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T15:27:45","slug":"lat-violent-crime-in-california-rose-10-in-2015-state-attorney-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99987","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Violent crime in California rose 10% in 2015, state attorney general says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-violent-crimes-20160701-snap-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>: After two years of decline, the number of violent crimes in California rose by 10% in 2015, although the overall crime rate remained among the lowest in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers were up in all major categories of violent crime compared with those of 2014, according to reports released Friday by the state attorney general\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Homicides increased 9.7%, and robbery and aggravated assault climbed by more than 8%.<\/p>\n<p>Hate crimes followed the same trend, with a 10.4% jump. The vast majority of the uptick involved religious bias. Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish incidents were up, as were those targeting Latinos\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Statewide, 1,861 people were slain in 2015, compared with more than 4,000 in 1993\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The vast majority \u2013 nearly 83% \u2013 of the victims were male. About 47% of all victims were killed by friends and acquaintances; 31% by a stranger and nearly 15% by their spouse, parent or child. Women were more likely than men to be slain by their spouse.<\/p>\n<p>At 43%, the largest proportion of homicide victims was Latino, followed by 28.4% black and 21.3% white. Nearly 29% of homicides were gang-related\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times: After two years of decline, the number of violent crimes in California rose by 10% in 2015, although the overall crime rate remained among the lowest in decades. The numbers were up in all major categories of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99987\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99988,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99987\/revisions\/99988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}