After a brazen daylight robbery on Friday — a diner’s $500,000 watch was stolen at gunpoint at a fashionable restaurant — Beverly Hills police have promised to bring in private security guards to patrol the city’s business district. “I want the world to know that Beverly Hills is a very safe community,” Beverly Hills Police Chief Dominick Rivetti wrote in a statement released on Saturday. But Belhassen, who told reporters he was fighting for his life not the watch, wound up with their gun. He doubts it will hit the market quickly, in part because his robbery in the heart of Beverly Hills caught so much attention. As of Tuesday, L.A. had recorded 64 homicides and 267 shootings, compared with 46 homicides and 111 shootings at the same point last year, Girmala said.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 07, 2021 00:00 UTC