January 2025
The West Hollywood Sheriff’s Station has released its statistics for January 2025, detailing law enforcement activity across the city.
Deputies responded to 1,566 calls for service, leading to 108 arrests, including 45 felony arrests. Emergency response times averaged 4.7 minutes across 91 high-priority incidents.
Property crimes remained a concern, with 164 reported incidents, including 22 burglaries, 31 thefts from motor vehicles, and 10 auto thefts. Robberies declined to five incidents compared to the previous year.
Traffic enforcement efforts resulted in 75 reports, six DUI arrests, and two scooter-related citations. Additionally, the department offered services to 61 unhoused individuals, with one accepting assistance.
West Hollywood’s Safety Ambassadors released their January 2025 report, highlighting community engagement and safety efforts throughout the city.
Ambassadors assisted with 2,691 hospitality interactions and made 2,771 business contacts. Unhoused outreach efforts resulted in 362 interactions, down 14% from last year. Safety escorts saw a significant rise to 27 incidents, marking a 125% increase.
Patrol teams responded to 247 calls for service and provided 112 reports of improperly parked scooters. In addition, Sheriff assistance was requested nine times, an 80% increase over the previous year.
Traffic safety measures included 332 miles covered by bike patrols. Emergency medical and fire responses totaled nine incidents.
The Safety Ambassadors also responded to 347 calls for service throughout the month, with an average response time of 13.6 minutes.
Good ole consistent 1.6% of homeless accepting services while we allow them to do whatever they want. We MUST ban public camping, loitering and panhandling. They don’t want help. It isn’t humane to allow those that can’t make decisions do so on their own. Force them off the streets and into care.
yup they do whatever whenever wherever they want. now we have them sleeping in shopping carts at pavilions (sidewalks and parking lot). :\
The Supreme Court said just a little while back that cities can make their own decisions about what they want to do about their homeless population. Lindsey Horvath says we are going to do nothing different. The feds give a LOT of money to cities for their homeless, little of which actually goes to the homeless, with most of it being distributed to pet projects and to reelection campaigns. Horvath and others don’t want to lose that gravy train, and actually doing something effective for these people would mean the funds would be tracked. They would rather have the problem… Read more »
That’s your only takeaway from the crime report?
What is your problem?
What have you added to the conversation? I don’t have a problem. It is what I care about. Every month it is the same thing. 100-200 homeless outreach attempts and 1 acceptance. Meanwhile our city invests mountains of money into homeless programs they don’t want. I’d argue the “let the homeless be” crew are the ones that are not being compassionate. I have a cousin who went to Davidson (one of the best colleges in the U.S.), but developed schizophrenia in his 20’s. It was being managed with medicine to the point he felt he didn’t need it and stopped… Read more »
Shame on this city council for allowing scooters in our city. Unacceptable the number of citations being made for a mobility that has no business blocking our sidewalks and streets