Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell Thursday reported the city’s 2025 homicide rate was the lowest since the 1950s. McDonnell touted the homicide rate for 2025 stood at 5.9 per 100,000 residents, the lowest rate per capita since 1959. The 230 deaths last year contrasted starkly with the record-1,077 in 1993. Last year, the […]
