Washington Post: “What you have now is this convergence — a new mayor, a police chief seeking another term, and an increase in violent crime despite it subsiding somewhat from highs during the pandemic,” said Fernando Guerra, a political science professor and founder of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. “The fact is you can change the players — a new mayor, a new chief — but you are not changing the facts on the street,” Guerra said. “It’s an easy out in some ways to change the players, but it’s still a tough call.”
Source: Washington Post
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