You Are Not Protected By Your Zip Code

As the good people of Encino are discovering. After 'American Idol' exec killing and other recent break-ins, Encino residents demand LAPD action

You have to wonder how many people in Encino were demanding the defunding of the police department a few years back. Now they want more police services.

Encino community leaders on Thursday asked Mayor Karen Bass to increase security following a deadly home invasion and a string of other break-ins in the San Fernando Valley hillside neighborhood.

“American Idol” music supervisor Robin Kaye and her rock musician husband, Tom DeLuca, were killed in their Encino home by an intruder earlier this month. The Hayvenhurst Avenue home of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Teddi Mellencamp was also targeted last week by three intruders who jumped a fence and entered the property.

Encino is a neighborhood San Fernando Valley, which is part of Los Angeles, California. It is roughly 18 miles northwest of downtown LA, or about 14 miles from Hollywood.

This is California, and these are affluent liberals, so the idea that they should arm themselves and shoot the bad guys will never occur to them. Or not until more of them are mugged by reality.

Glushon and others leaders want Bass and the LAPD to create a real-time crime monitoring center at a local police station, similar to one in Beverly Hills. They also want a new police substation in Encino, drones to track suspicious cars and crime, license plate readers at major intersections, and weekly public meetings with LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.

Is it just me, or does that sound like they are demanding the infrastructure of a police state. The East German Secret Police would have loved all of those things.

None of these steps will ensure safety, but then being armed in your own defense is no guarantee. Some strategies are better than others. (The image above is from Oleg Volk.)