CRIME STATISTICS: Los Angeles Police Department figures show the hot spots for violent crime in the San Fernando Valley (B2). . . . Behind the numbers, though, are the stories. An area in Van Nuys, for example, has a high number of reported rapes because attackers target prostitutes who frequent the area (B1).
Violent Crime in the Valley
There were fewer violent crimes* in the LAPD's Valley Bureau's five divisions from Jan. 1 to April 30 than in the same persiod last year.
1993 1994 % change Devonshire 886 794 -10.4 Foothill 1,226 1,028 -16.2 N. Hollywood 1,207 990 -18.0 Van Nuys 1,417 1,328 -6.3 West Valley 1,055 910 -13.7
* Homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault
Source: Los Angeles Police Department
NORTHRIDGE MEADOWS: It was a sad Mother's Day weekend for Marcee Murray of Phoenix, as she spent a second day Saturday excavating family treasures. She retrieved whatever papers and mementos she could from the Northridge Meadows apartment that collapsed in the Jan. 17 earthquake and killed her mother, Beatrice Reskin. . . . After three hours of crawling on her belly through what was a first-floor apartment, Murray pulled her knees up to her chest and sobbed. "It's part of the healing, knowing that we have her things," Murray said.
