LOS ANGELES, CA – Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and other city officials announced Monday that homicides in the city fell 47% and shooting victims fell 50% over the past four years, a week before the Nov. 3 mayoral election, city officials said at a news conference in Van Nuys.
The figures compare Oct. 22, 2022, with Oct. 22, 2026. Officials said the city recorded 161 fewer homicides and 573 fewer shooting victims over that period, and they presented the numbers Monday, Oct. 26, at the Van Nuys Community Police Station.
Bass was joined by City Councilman John Lee, who chairs the council’s Public Safety Committee, City Councilwoman Imelda Padilla and Los Angeles Police Department officers.
For the San Fernando Valley, officials reported that burglaries were down 41%, robberies were down 21% and motor vehicle thefts were down 31% in 2026 compared with the same period in 2025.
The announcement came about a week before Election Day, when Bass faces City Councilwoman Nithya Raman in a competitive race for mayor.
Homicide and shooting figures over four years
Officials described the 47% decline in homicides as a reduction of 161 deaths over the four-year period. The 50% decline in shooting victims was presented as 573 fewer victims.
Both figures are citywide and rest on a single comparison window, from Oct. 22, 2022, to Oct. 22, 2026. Officials did not release specific data on total overall shooting incidents during that period.
According to initial reports, the mayor’s office also said gang-related homicides have fallen by more than 50% citywide since 2022.
Valley burglaries, robberies and vehicle thefts decline
The San Fernando Valley numbers use a shorter comparison. Officials said the figures for burglaries, robberies and motor vehicle thefts measure 2026 against the same period in 2025, rather than against 2022.
Lee highlighted the burglary figure in particular, saying burglaries in the Valley were down 41% in just the past year. Robberies fell 21% and motor vehicle thefts fell 31% in the same comparison.
The Valley burglary decline was also the subject of an earlier announcement. In a news release issued Aug. 28, the mayor’s office said Valley burglaries were down 43% compared with the previous August and citywide burglaries were down 27%.
That release also said the LAPD had run high-visibility patrols on Ventura Boulevard and deployed mobile license plate readers. It added that the CIRCLE civilian crisis response program had received $2 million in federal grants. The August figures and Monday’s 41% figure cover different comparison periods.
Bass credits community safety investments
Bass said at the news conference that her top responsibility is public safety. “As mayor, my number-one job is to keep Angelenos safe,” she said.
She also said: “While I recognize that safety is more than statistics, this data shows that we are making real progress, making the right investments, and responding to the needs of communities.”
Bass credited the Mayor’s Office of Community Safety and the city’s civilian crisis response, the programs she pointed to as part of the decline.
According to initial reports, the mayor’s office also cited tripled public investment in civilian crisis response, the Gang Reduction and Youth Development and Summer Night Lights programs, expanded Safe Passage and more second-chance employment. It also pointed to a unified 911 dispatch center for unarmed response teams.
Lee and Padilla describe progress in the Valley
Lee, who represents Council District 12 in the northwest Valley, said the Valley’s progress is significant. “The progress we’re seeing in the San Fernando Valley is significant, with burglaries down 41 percent in just the past year and major reductions in violent crime over the last four years,” he said in a statement.
He added that the numbers represent fewer residents becoming victims of crime. Lee also thanked the men and women of the LAPD, saying their work helps make that possible.
Padilla, who represents Council District 6, spoke about the approach behind the figures. “Public safety is not just about being responsive to crime. It’s about creating the conditions that help prevent it,” she said.
LAPD reported fewest homicides since 1966 in 2025
Monday’s four-year comparison follows the department’s year-end report. LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell presented the department’s 2025 citywide crime data at a Jan. 29 news conference, which the department announced in a newsroom notice.
The City of Los Angeles published the department’s 2025 crime data report, which showed 230 homicides in 2025. That was a 19% reduction from 2024 and the fewest homicides in the city since 1966.
The 2025 report covers a calendar year, while the figures announced Monday run from one October date to another. The two sets of numbers therefore measure different spans.
How the LAPD publishes crime statistics
The department posts current citywide and area statistics on its crime mapping and COMPSTAT page, which hosts its COMPSTAT profile reports.
The department’s COMPSTAT Citywide Profile for Sept. 13 to Oct. 10, 2026, states that LAPD’s 2026 and 2025 crime counts are preliminary. It says the counts are based on National Incident-Based Reporting System, or NIBRS, offense definitions and on the date each crime occurred.
Offense-level records are available through the city’s open data portal, where the LAPD NIBRS Offenses Dataset covers offenses since the department’s March 7, 2024, move to NIBRS reporting. The Oct. 22, 2022, start of the comparison announced Monday falls before that date.
Raman’s campaign says Bass is claiming a national trend
Raman’s mayoral campaign responded to the announcement in a statement to reporters on Monday. It accused Bass of taking credit for a national trend of declining crime.
The campaign cited longer 911 hold times, streetlight repairs that now stretch from one month to nearly a year, and budget cuts that moved sworn officers into civilian desk jobs. Those points are the campaign’s claims, and they were not part of the figures presented at the news conference.
Public safety and policing have also been part of the debate between the two candidates. At an Oct. 13 televised debate, Raman called for replacing McDonnell, saying he has lost the trust of Angelenos, particularly in response to ICE raids.
Election is Nov. 3
Voters will decide the race between Bass and Raman on Nov. 3, one week after the announcement in Van Nuys. The officials who presented the figures described them as a four-year trend in homicides and shooting victims, along with one-year declines in several Valley property and vehicle crimes.
The department’s published crime statistics remain preliminary, and total shooting incidents for the four-year period had not been released.
