Crime & Safety

ALERT: Be on the Lookout for Squatters in Vacant Houses

Police are building a database of vacant residences in our area.

[This news release comes from the Devonshire Division of the Los Angeles Police Department.]

In an effort to oversee vacant residences and preventing them from being occupied illegally by wouldbe squatters we are requesting your assistance in identifying vacant proprieties. We are building a database in which these locations will be listed and we need everyone to take a look at their immediate neighborhood and forward the address of the vacant residences to the following email address: 

DEVBUSNWATCH@lapd.lacity.org

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