Gun-Related Crimes Are Rising in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES—In the first two months of this year, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers fielded 570 reports of shots fired, up 88 percent from the 303 incidents during same time frame in 2020—and 267 people were hit by gunfire, a 141 percent increase from the 111 people wounded in the time frame in 2020, it was reported today. And homicides in Los Angeles are also up, according to Crosstown, a nonprofit news organization based out of the USC Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, in partnership with the Integrated Media Systems Center at the Viterbi School of Engineering, which covers the neighborhoods of Los Angeles through data.