 | Mayor Hahn’s efforts to put more police on our streets, restore Los Angeles’ community policing program, and bring new leadership to the Los Angeles Police Department have gotten significant results. Compared with just two years ago, violent crime is down in every LAPD area, including the Southwest, Southeast, and 77th areas, which serve South Los Angeles neighborhoods. Citywide, crime is down18 percent compared with two years ago. |
| Expanded the city’s nationally-recognized LA’s BEST after school program to serve over 5,500 additional students at over 45 additional schools. The program now provides free of charge a safe, educational, and fun place for more than 4,200 students at 27 elementary schools in South Los Angeles. Citywide, it serves over 20,000 students at over 125 schools. |
| Worked with LAPD to enhanced efforts to reduce gang-related crime in South Los Angeles, including provision of additional resources to areas with high gang-related crime in the Southwest, Southeast and 77th areas through the LAPD’s Community Safety Operations Task Force. |
| Launched an effort to improve recruitment of African American police officers at LAPD to help ensure that the department reflects the diversity of the neighborhoods that it serves. |
| Worked with LAPD to ensure the department tracks and monitors pedestrian and traffic stops to help the department identify potential problems with racial profiling. Mayor Hahn included requiring this data collection as part of the consent decree he negotiated when he was City Attorney. |
| Led the effort to reinstate the Senior Lead Officer (SLO) Program, LAPD’s community policing program, to provide a direct link between Los Angeles communities and the police department. |
| Created a Joint Park Safety Task Force and directed the LAPD to deploy specialized resources to neighborhood parks that most need additional security. The task force created stop-in centers at over 60 city parks to enhance police presence, including more than 20 parks in South Los Angeles. |
| Removed more than 9 million square feet of graffiti from over 90,000 locations in South Los Angeles. |
| Launched a program to increase arrests of those who illegally dispose of items such as couches, televisions, mattresses, or other hazardous waste on city streets or alleys. Since the beginning of the Hahn Administration, more than 280,000 tons of illegally dumped items have been removed from South Los Angeles neighborhoods. |
| Supporting a new fire station in Watts to serve the local community. |
| Supports more than 80 neighborhood councils across the city, including over a dozen that represent South Los Angeles neighborhoods. Mayor Hahn provided up to $50,000 for each neighborhood council to use for operating expenses and neighborhood projects of their choice. |
| Advocated for and closely monitored the East Central Interceptor Sewer (ECIS) project to ensure that it was completed on-time and on-budget. The project, which rehabilitated the city’s sewer system in East, Central, and South Los Angeles neighborhoods, increased the system’s capacity and will greatly reduce the number of sewage spills. Prior to the construction of ECIS, heavy rains would cause sewage to flow into the streets and there were some instances where children were walking through raw sewage to get to school. ECIS was the largest public works project in the city’s history. |
| Worked with the Los Angeles Public Library to open or renovate branch libraries in South Los Angeles, including the Hyde Park, Baldwin Hills, Ascot and Mark Twain branch libraries. |
| Worked with the Department of Recreation and Parks to rehabilitate or open more than 20 park facilities in South Los Angeles neighborhoods, including a pool, two gyms, and an outdoor amphitheater at the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center. |
| Provided over $2 million to South Los Angeles communities through the Neighborhood Block Grant (NBG) program, which is helping to make streetscape and housing improvements in the Leimert Park, MidCity, Watts, and West Adams neighborhoods. |
| Issued a declaration of local emergency for the areas impacted by devastating floods in South Los Angeles in 2003, and helped Watts residents receive assistance by urging the governor to declare a State of Emergency for the City of Los Angeles. Mayor Hahn also co-sponsored a community clean-up in Watts to provide assistance those whose homes were damaged. |
| Provided resources to the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) to improve the Tom Bradley Multipurpose Center, which provides services to seniors. Renovations to the center included a new state-of-the-art kitchen, a computer lab, and several multi-purpose rooms. |
| Opened a Neighborhood City Hall in South Los Angeles, which provides services from departments including Building and Safety, Personnel and Neighborhood Empowerment. |
| Created the Street Smart program, which targets for traffic-reducing improvements 35 of Los Angeles’ busiest streets and when completed will save Los Angeles drivers an estimated 15 million hours per year. Streets that will be improved in South Los Angeles neighborhoods through this program include Figueroa, Manchester, Slauson, and Western. |
| Created the Traffic Safety and Congestion Relief Plan, which identifies and makes improvements to 25 of Los Angeles’ worst intersections every year. These improvements make the intersections safer and help reduce traffic congestion for over 1 million drivers every day. |
| Supported the design and construction of the Exposition Line and was instrumental in making a priority a light rail line along the Crenshaw Corridor. |
| Strongly supports the Marlton Square project in South Los Angeles’ Crenshaw District, which will bring single-family homes, affordable housing for seniors, a retail center and a community public facility to this community. Marlton Square is the largest redevelopment project in South Los Angeles in the city’s history. |
| Helped bring the Vermont Slauson Retail Center to South Los Angeles to provide jobs and much needed goods and services at a site that was unoccupied for 12 years. This center includes a Gigante Supermarket and 4,000 square feet of office space. |
| Helped create the Small and Local Business Advisory Committee (SLBAC), which brings together businesses to help the city streamline its contracting process to give more opportunities to small and local businesses. The committee is chaired by Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce (GLAAACC) Chairman Gene Hale to chair the committee. |
| Worked with the city’s Community Development Department program to hire hundreds of qualified young people in Watts through the Youth Opportunity Movement, which provides education, job training and employment services. |
| Worked with the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to identify 25 companies for MBDA’s Equity Capital Access program (MECA). |
| Provided funding that is helping to build over 300 new housing units in South Los Angeles through the $100 million Housing Trust Fund. |
| Worked with Sony Pictures Entertainment and California Institute of the Arts Community Arts Partnership to offer after school animation and art classes to Watts students ages 10 to 14. |
