Five follow-home robberies were reported in Los Angeles in the last 48 hours, the Los Angeles Police Department told the city's police commission during a teleconference Tuesday, marking an uptick in the trend that previously decreased by 78% in March compared to its peak in November.
The phenomenon -- in which police say armed suspects follow victims from restaurants and shopping areas such as Melrose Avenue and the Jewelry District to rob them of jewelry, watches or vehicles -- was"almost unheard of" before last year, according to Capt. Jonathan Tippet, who leads the Follow Home Robbery Task Force created in November. who stole roughly $600,000 worth of property in October near Winchester Park.
In September and October, the department's Robbery-Homicide Division began noticing a pattern of increased robberies involving multiple vehicles and multiple armed suspects coordinating to rob people of high-end vehicles and jewelry, Tippet said. In dealing with follow-home robbery investigations, the task force adjusted the department's usual practice of waiting to identify all people involved in a robbery before making arrests, Tippet said.
The department said the most incidents seen in a two-week period was 26 in November. In the most recent two-week period, only seven follow-home robberies were reported, and the two weeks before that saw only three follow- home robberies, Tippet said. The department believes a total of 17 gangs from South Los Angeles are involved in the robberies, but many of them are allegedly from rival groups and are not working together.
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