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While awaiting his murder trial, Adrian Berumen volunteered to live with mentally ill inmates. His experience caring for them could shape the jail system's future.
- ADVERTISEMENT - Poly is a uniquely beloved school in Long Beach and beyond, famous nationwide for its rigorous academics and Grammy-winning music program as much as its football team that consistently pumps out NFL stars like Willie McGinest and JuJu Smith-Schuster. As Poly’s slogan next to its signature Jackrabbit mascot tells you, it’s the “Home of Scholars and Champions.” So when recent graduate Anais Lopez heard from her younger sister that the magnet program they both attended was being hollowed out, she made a fuss. She started a petition to save Poly’s Center for Internatio...
- ADVERTISEMENT - Long Beach police officers first headed to her home in the 700 block of East 15th Street in a neighborhood just south of Poly High School when a possible shooting was reported shortly after 5 a.m. Thursday, authorities said. The woman told officers that she though her home was being broken into, prompting her to fire the gun, according to the Long Beach Police Department. After officers found no evidence of a break-in, they took the woman into custody on suspicion of negligently discharging a firearm, police said. The only damage found was from the round or rounds fired by t...
- ADVERTISEMENT - Former Long Beach Councilman Steve Neal said the goal was to create a team of city government officials, nonprofits, religious groups, mental health professionals and former gang members to share how to prevent violence from continuing to spread across the streets. “We’d like to build a network here to connect the dots to address social ills, particularly gun violence,” he said. Overall, 381 shootings took place across the city in 2020. The previous four years had an annual average of 232 shootings. The townhall, called LBC Peace Makers, was co-hosted by local activist...
- ADVERTISEMENT - “This is not normal,” Stark said, after two shootings occurred within earshot of his apartment on two consecutive nights in December. Since then, Stark has taken up listening to a police scanner and monitoring local Facebook groups to scrape together a better sense of what’s going on in his neighborhood. Because the Long Beach Police Department does not regularly release statistics about shootings, it’s been hard for Stark to quantify his gut feeling about a spike in shootings, but data obtained by the Long Beach Post through public records requests shows he’s righ...