LAPD Investigating Over 100 At-Home Robberies in Recent Months

The LA area has been experiencing a wave of crimes taking place right in victims’ homes, as criminals fear no reprisal with low, or no bail at all being demanded from those arrested before they’re back on the streets again. CBSLA reports:

After nearly two years of pandemic restrictions, a family’s party was supposed to be an opportunity to share holiday joy, but after partygoers were robbed at gunpoint inside their home, the Westside residents are dealing with the trauma of being part of a growing statistic.

“I’m feeling disturbed, violated that people were in our house with guns,” said the Pacific Palisades homeowner who did not want to give her name or show her face on camera.

Security cameras recorded two men walking down the side of her home Saturday, while the holiday party was underway. Moments later, the two men can be seen doubling back. A second camera then captured the two suspects coming out of the walkway and entering the front gate.

Once they were inside, the men encountered two party guests.

“Threatened them and said, ‘You need to give me your wallet, iPhone. One of them was wearing an iwatch and their jewelry,” the homeowner said.

The party itself was in the backyard with several dozen guests, but the robbery occurred inside, when two guests had gone inside to grab something out of their purses.

“It happened in our family room,” the homeowner told CBSLA, “and it disgusts me because that’s the place where we spend a lot of time.”

Last month, a security camera captured three people being robbed at gunpoint and beaten in Hancock Park by crooks who impersonated police officers during a follow-home robbery.

RO• @abc7la They’re phony SoCal police officers pulling off real residential robberies. The gunmen wearing “POLICE” windbreakers and armed with handguns. But they’re no cops. Eyewitness News with the new follow-home heists, and the danger at your doorstep. #caughtoncamera pic.twitter.com/5f3qxMZodj

— BlackRoomMedia (@BlackRoomMedia1) December 6, 2021

Days before that, a man entered a home where an engagement party was underway and he left with money.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it’s investigating more than 100 of these types of robberies in recent months.

“It’s happening all over the city,” Steven Bardack, a friend of the Pacific Palisades victim, said.

Bardack and other neighbors want laws stiffened against armed robberies.

“The idea of a no bail or low bail environment only emboldens and perpetuates a systemic problem. It’s getting worse and it’s rapidly, rapidly deteriorating,” he said.

Video of another brazen follow-home robbery in the Hancock Park neighborhood has shocked viewers, who watched as a mother walking her baby is robbed in her own driveway.

Action Line: No matter where you live, don’t be a victim. Get your gun and your training now.

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