Eagle Rock's 'National Night Out' is Tonight

Since last Friday’s armed robbery outside the Vons supermarket on Figueroa Street, the LAPD has reported three more crimes in Eagle Rock through Crimemapping.com, a nationwide repository of the latest crime data.

Two of the incidents—both on Saturday—are related to thefts. The third, on Sunday, involves a stolen bicycle from the 2400 block of Colorado Boulevard.

Summertime, warned LAPD Chief Charlie Beck in June, is the high season for crime. Perhaps befittingly, summer is also when communities, businesses, law enforcement agencies and local officials across the nation participate in “National Night Out”—a show of solidarity against crime and violence. (More than 36 million people participated in National Night Out in 2010.)

Eagle Rock is holding its own National Night Out today, Tuesday, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the upper-level parking lot of .

Hosted by the office of , the LAPD’s Northeast Community Station and, among others, Eagle Rock’s Neighborhood Watch, the event is aimed at increasing public awareness about crime and drug prevention as well as generating support for local anticrime initiatives, including by strengthening police-community partnerships.