Long Beach gangs

LBPD Teams With Other Agencies To Take Down Asian Gang Robbery Ring

The Long Beach Police Department in partnership with Orange County law enforcement agencies and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, served numerous early morning search warrants and conducted several probation and parole searches Wednesday, netting guns, computers, money and narcotics.

Gang-Enforcement Focuses on East Side Longos; 13 Arrested During Multi-Agency Operation

On Wednesday, February 9, a multi-agency gang enforcement operation headed by the Long Beach Police Department conducted simultaneous searches that resulted in the arrest of 13 individuals and the recovery of weapons, ammunition, and other evidence. The operation focused on a local gang responsible for multiple shootings in recent months, including one where two uniformed [...]

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s MEDEA; January’s LBOpera Cinema Sunday Morning Lecture and Film Series

Maria Callas starring in her only film role. On Sunday, January 30, 2011, The LBOpera Cinema continues its popular Sunday morning lecture and film series with MEDEA by Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini. (Italian with English subtitles) “The only movie made by Maria Callas, Medea nevertheless contains not a note of the great diva singing. [...]

Chief Confirms Long Beach Crime Rates Lowest Since 1971

Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell held a news conference in which he addressed a significant decline in crime rates in the City of Long Beach. He proudly announced that 2010 brought a significant reduction in crime for the City of Long Beach. “We believe that our response time to emergency calls for service has [...]

Stand Up for Skateparks: Tony Hawk Foundation to raise funds for LB’s McBride Skatepark

The Tony Hawk Foundation has chosen Long Beach’s’ McBride Skatepark as the pledge-drive beneficiary for its annual “Tony Hawk: SHRED Presents Stand Up for Skateparks” fundraiser in Beverly Hills, October 17. The exclusive, family-centric, action-sports carnival will feature music performances and Vert Demos, with the icons of skateboarding and BMX on Hawk’s personal ramp. Proceeds [...]

Long Beach rejects assertion that 14th Street Stake Park Project is ‘stimulus waste’

The City of Long Beach today defended the multiple community benefits of a proposed skate park expansion and rejected a Senator’s assertion that the project is an inappropriate use of Stimulus dollars. Today, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) released a list of 100 projects that he believes are not appropriate uses of Stimulus dollars passed by [...]