I am sure you have heard about it. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, gangs from South L.A. have been following wealthy Angelenos from high-end hotels, restaurants and clubs and snatching their watches and purses. According to police, some suspects were released after being arrested and committed more robberies. I immediately felt bad for those who were attacked and worried about the political implications for the L.A. mayoral race, which is being funded by voters afraid of crime. Fernando Rejón, the executive director of L.A.'s Urban Peace Institute, was a bit upset. For a deeper reason. Outreach workers and police officers get trained in gang intervention tactics when Rej works on violence prevention. He's aware that tough-on-crime rhetoric can oversimplify solutions to crime and overshadow why people resort to it in the first place. At the moment, one of the things is getting a lot of attention. Straight-up economics is what it is. Rej told me that people are struggling. People will sell drugs. Some people are involved in different aspects of the underground economy in order to survive or make some type of money. He acknowledged that there are people who go after people in wealthy neighborhoods. It is not uncommon. Magnus Lofstrom, policy director of criminal justice and a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, said there is a positive relationship between income inequality and crime. Income inequality was more extreme in California before the economic turmoil of the COVID-19 epidemic. The richest families in the state had more money than the poor families. The gap has grown over time. While California is home to 25% of the country's billionaires, we are also home to 25% of the country's homeless people, most of whom are black and Latino. A recent study from the United Ways of California found that as many as 3.5 million households in the state are struggling to meet their basic needs. There are 1.1 million households in Los Angeles County. We don't have a place to put the homeless in this city because we have no other place to put them other than in hotels and tiny homes. Thousands of desperate Angelenos are struggling to afford rent and avoid eviction. Only 21% of voters said they were better off than a year ago, according to a study by UC Berkeley and the Los Angeles Times. 42% said they were worse off and 34% said there had been no change. If everyone is in the same boat, that is different than if you are barely hanging on to the edge of the boat. As we emerge from the Pandemic, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Not all economic desperation leads to crime. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, a small group of poor people from South L.A. have turned to armed robberies. One can drive under the 10 freeway and rob two UCLA students of watches worth enough for a down payment on a house. One can go to downtown L.A. and rob someone else of their watches and have enough money to pay off their house. There were 165 crimes of this nature in the year 2021, according to Capt. Jonathan Tippet, who leads the task force that released the report. There have been close to 60 this year. In his 34 years on the job, Kevin has never seen anything like this. I am not surprised. We have never seen such income inequality. None of this is an excuse for criminal behavior. Rich people should be able to walk around with their diamond-encrusted, $300,000 watches without fear of being followed, tackled on a sidewalk and pistol-whipped by a bunch of dudes in hoodies, as the LAPD said happened to some victims. There are things that can be done to help make that happen. Getting more guns off the streets and taking an honest, unbiased, non political look at why some criminal suspects are released and others are kept locked up is part of that. It is important to recognize that these are short-term fixes, as mayoral candidates and voters talk about getting tough on crime. Investing in bigger and better community-based crime-prevention strategies that can help residents as well as law enforcement is one of the long-term solutions. It is not until the violence in the wealthy communities that it becomes a major issue. We had a handle on it for a decade. It is not time to turn back. broadening our understanding of public safety is something we need to continue to invest in. We need to find new and meaningful ways to address widening income inequality in South L.A. We don't want shortsighted, short-term solutions for a long-term problem. The story was originally published in the Los Angeles Times. 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