Homeless crime

The Los Angeles Police Department said this month the number of crime reports that described people experiencing homelessness as either suspects or victims increased by more than 50-percent in 2018.Most notably, the number of rapes attributed to suspects described as homeless increased by 78 percent and the number of serious assaults attributed to suspects described as homeless increased by 56 percent, according to the LAPD’s 2018 fourth quarter report on homelessness.NBC4’s I-Team reported last December that the number of crime reports that listed homeless people as suspects had increased significantly in the first 11 months of 2018, based on an analysis of crime data obtained from the LAPD.