Last quarter, the security team assisted the City in getting over 810 bulky items picked up, made 39 calls/reports to the City for street repairs, and assisted in getting 465 graffiti tags cleaned up. The team responded to 38 calls for assists to the LAPD and others. They issued 53 illegal vendor warnings and assisted 41 homeless individuals. Additionally, 674 illegal signs were removed. Read Article

On the evening of June 16th, 2011, over 200 people gathered at the corner of 3rd St. and Vermont Ave. in Los Angeles for a Night Out event. The purpose of this event was for people to get to know their neighbors and to join with our elected officials, community leaders and the LAPD officers of the Olympic Division to empower citizens to regain control of our communities. Watch the Video

On Nov. 6th over 200 people gathered at Shatto Park to conduct a community cleanup. Two teams armed with brooms, trash bags, and graffiti removal supplies left from the park at 10AM. One team headed west down 3rd St. towards Normandie Ave. and the other headed south down Vermont Ave. The two teams removed weeds, planted trees, donated food to the homeless, picked up all items of trash and eliminated all graffiti in sight. Watch the Video

Close to 100 overgrown ficus trees have been trimmed throughout the District by one of our contractors. Over 30 of them were on Irolo and 8th Street and more then 60 of them were between 3rd and 7th from Wilton to Hoover. The intersections of 8th and Irolo and 8th and Vermont have been steamed cleaned. See (the tree trimming) Before and After Photos