Long Beach Police Dept

I HATE LBPD! Lazy good for nothing ass clowns! for 2 weeks now someone at the end of my street has been soothing off fireworks between 10 and 3am… After driving passed the people and seeing with my own 2 eyes them lighting giant illegal fireworks and shooting them at the power lines… yeah…dumb long beach people… I called the LBPD and told the exactly where the people were and what they were doing and i also informed them about the gun shots i heard earlier. an hour goes by and I hear more gun shots and more fireworks, so I call them back only to find out non of my info was taken down and no one was sent to investigate. So after give all the info a 2^nd time and asking the «lady» on the phone to have someone call or come to my door after they go to the house in question, I drove down there and parked my car to see if anyone would actually show up. I know how crazy I sound right now, but I was pissed! I have a 1 year old who keeps getting woken up by all the noise and I haven’t had a full nights sleep in almost 2 weeks because of thees pieces of trash at the end of my street! NO ONE SHOWED UP! I was there for 90 min!
This is not the first time I’ve asked the LBPD for help and been disappointed. Ive never had a good interaction with them.
Is it really too much to ask for the men and women who our taxes pay, to just show up and do your F#@king jobs?! I do NOT feel safe knowing thees A$$holes are the ones «protecting» my family.

These guys are ricking their lives for our safety. My respect to them!

Ridiculously high response time. Locals in the area know this so our crime rate is high. Response time is 45min on to an hour and a half on average. Asshole dispatchers that don’t take callers seriously.
This morning my husband called the dispatch to report a pervert exposing himself to passers by. Husband waited 50 min, police still had not shown up. Pervert of course was long gone.
Another time, several months ago, I’d called in to report a suspicious backpack left abandoned on the sidewalk. Most cities take this kind of thing seriously. Not LBPD. Dispatcher actually asked me if I’d opened the backpack to see what was inside. They had to be kidding me! Look inside an abandoned backpack?! Send the goddamned bomb squad idiots!
But again. Did not take this seriously.

Got a call from a Jose Roberto Orantes in the Long beach Police Dept. threatening me with criminal harassment. I am an identity theft victim in LA area, NO where near long beach and I found the criminals who had stolen my check/​bank information by posing as gardeners one day and stole my identity that way. I gave a check to a edgar contreras to do my lawns, he works in enterprise rental in long beach. Some how my bank/​check info ended up in the hands of his family laura alicia contreras who lives in torrance area and works as a manger of a run down condos by lax who used it in Vons in west LA to buy food and get cash back around $ 100. I solved my own crime and confronted the thieves by calling to inquire about the charges and fraud. Orantes called and left me a threat message! Looked him up and saw that in 2012 he made Over $ 141,000 a year! WHAT??? he left me a message saying hey stay away from edgar and laura. OK orantes how do you have jurisdiction over Laura who lives in torrance when you are a Long beach cop? Is this a mexican check fraud ring and getting protected by orantes or what is his deal? I called and told him I would sue him and he hung up the phone, thanks long beach police dept., good for you protecting the criminals and making $ 141,000 a year from our tax monies! Disgusting! I was told to report him to internal affairs! why does he make the same amount of money as an ER doctor and can’t even help an identity theft victim and protects criminals???

Crime is LB is much higher than reported. Exhibit 1 — My son has car broken into in DTLB and tries to file a police report; they wont take it because he is not the registered owner. So I try to file a report after LAPD finds my stolen documents on an ID theft ring. Amazingly, after asking me everything that happened the LBPD watch officer wont take my report either; he says we both have to come in together for them to write a report. LAPD tells me they should have taken the report on either occasion. I’m thinking they screwed the pooch on this one and I don’t want to give them the opportunity to take it out on me so «forget about it» as they say. LB, you should think about contracting with the Sheriff.

Ran in a police officer today trying to get into my building while the power was out in downtown long beach. The only way I could get home is by going through the cones and all he could do is yell at me for driving on the tracks while I was asking him for help. I’m losing more and more hope for our police department if this is how we are going to be treated in hard times. Not sure whose idea it was to block every single street around pine to keep us from our homes that we pay for but it was terrible I pay too much for me to have to be harassed on my way home.

4^th of July 2015 and the noise from fireworks take me back to Vietnam. I call North Div at 8:45 PM to report the nuisance. Three hours later I can still hear the noise. LBPD never responded. Fireworks are illegal in the city of Long Beach. What good does it do to call LBPD if they don“t show. I spoke with Commander Beckman in 2014 about fireworks on the 4^th and this year was worse than last year.

I don’t have a whole lot of contact with the police. I see the patrols in my neighborhood and the officers always comport themselves in a professional way.
Tonight they earned an extra star.
It’s Friday, July 3 and I’m hearing almost nonstop explosions and booms. Anyway, I called the north division asking if they could do anything. I can’t tell exactly where the lunatics are that are risking burns and blindness, so I know there’s not much they can do…
Both officers I spoke to tonight could not have been nicer or more professional.
Thank you north division for helping me feel a little more secure tonight.
Happy Birthday USA

Never around when needed. Got mugged and did not even show up for report. Useless. Sit around doing nothing when I do see them. Lazy lazy. Can harass people walking down a street doing nothing but not there when needed. Only good reviews on here r cops or related to one

Police helicopter circling 2:00 — 2:45 a.m. still circling at PCH around 7^th and Anaheim St. in Long Beach the 25^th of March. Aren’t they supposed to hover?
Why circle around?!

People on some other block are having a concert with the worst «music» ever and they’re all barking like dogs. Called in a noise complaint almost an hour ago and the concert/​barking continues. And they wonder why citizens take matters into their own hands? This country needs to learn how to be more efficient. Great now those people are howling. I hope someone has a nasty heart attack. I’d rather hear screaming and crying for half an hour than 5 hours of barking and howling. …waiting…, made a 2^nd call… waiting…, 2 hours and counting and those animals are still howling because the police (that is one block away) still haven’t appeared to shut down these animals. Next time I will take care of the problem myself. Thanks for wasting my tax dollars at the cost of things more important, like education. We should brace ourselves for a California filled with uneducated idiots who sit around, drink beer paid for by welfare, screaming and barking until the sun rises while law enforcement at the end of the block can’t appear anywhere and do THEIR job.

Spend more time solving real crimes and less time looking out for Über drivers at the Long Beach airport.

Watched as the LBPD broke up a party last night right next to CSULB. It only took about 10 squad cars and a fucking helicopter to get the partiers to turn their music down. Good to see my tax money go to work as a helicopter circles around a college party for well over an hour at midnight, keeping all the residents of my small community up late at night while they wasted their time with unimportant crime.

Watch out for a corrupt officer by the name Zatarain out of north division, and don’t look to him for help unless you are an officer of the LB PD. He can not be trusted in any matters where police would be helpful, nor can anyone that is above him. They are all crooked cops that protect their own personal interest. He came out to situation that I was having that was already being handled by two other officers and butted in and spoke to people involved like we have a tail.
Then on a separate occasion a couple of days later, he lies about what happened a few days prior and even says he wasn’t even there. After about a half hour of arguing he decides to admit that he was their, but didn’t say or see anything. I was told that this lying officer was the only person that I could take my report, but since I was unwilling to give my report to a police officer lacking the integrity necessary to take my complaint, he voided the DR # and destroyed all the witness information.
I was assaulted by two people and I know exactly who the people are that did it, but despite the fact that I know exactly who it was, they were never even questioned by the detective handling the case (Det. Matsubara) or his Sergeant (Sergeant Odowd). This happened in 11 – 2012 and nothing has been done or will be done because according to Sergeant Odowd «there were no witnesses.» I was there! Doesn’t that make me a witness?
If someone gets raped in Long Beach, isn’t it still a crime if nobody else sees it? If you get robbed at gun point, isn’t that a crime if no one else sees it? He told me if I have a problem with his officer or himself, then I should give my complaint to Internal Affairs; so that’s exactly what I did. We will see what happens with the investigation, but rest assured that I will keep you all posted on current events. Peace and love, be safe running in Long Beach. Gang bangers and crooked cops ain’t shit!

Let’s see, they murdered an unarmed man (Conoscenti) in an isolated area without another human being around for a mile. Does that deserve one star?
Just like any other public union, these types of organizations breed corruption and are highly dangerous. I wish our society wasn’t such sheeple. This has got to stop.

How are Long Beach residents supposed to sleep with low-​flying helicopters incessantly buzzing about?
The low rating is really for whoever is responsible for cutting the budget and replacing actual policemen with helicopters. Is it really even cheaper to fuel helicopters on their long and frequent flights?! How could policymakers overlook the obvious disturbance this was bound to create? I wouldn’t be surprised to see an increased rate of car crashes, on the job accidents, and even increased incidences of high blood pressure (and health problems secondary to this) as a result of this very loud, very bad policy.
My neighborhood is pretty sketch. The police officers that I have dealt with have been cordial and professional. We need officers on the ground, not in the sky.
ENOUGH with these obnoxious helicopters.

When its hot i sleep with everything open
I hear a knock
I get out of bed, head to the door
This peanut headed uniform not only woke me up
He is INSIDE my apt without permission.
I didn’t pay attention after that.
People wonder why i celebrate a kop killing?! Seriously? #smh

The Long beach police department is a joke… it takes them two to three hours to even respond to ANYTHING, if they even bother to show up at all. When they do, they inevitably down play the issue and blow you off. Yesterday, some complete &^%$#@! Moved my motorcycle so he could park in the spot I had occupied (I can’t park my truck or my wife’s car in our driveway because it is too short and blocks the sidewalk by a whole four inches, then we get a $ 50 ticket). So we both have to park on the street, or get a ticket every day… So we had to run out for a quick errand, gone no more than 45 minutes, and I parked my bike in line with the curb to take up the corner spot she was in. When we came back there was my motorcycle, shoved against another car sticking like a T from the curb and a shiny new BMW sitting there. I honked the horn, yelled for the individual to come out and waited… Nothing, so I picked up my cell phone and called the police. They told me there was nothing they could do, as no crime had been committed because there was no damage to my bike… It did not matter someone had taken my property and moved it to suit their needs; nothing was damaged so no crime had been committed. I spoke with the officers and the watch commander on the phone and they blew me off… Completely blew me off.
Long story short, If you don’t physically damage anything, you can apparently move whatever you want wherever you want… I have the license plate and VIN number of the car and I am going to buy a couple of large rolling hydraulic jacks and when I find that guys car again, I will move it wherever I !@#$%^& feel like it and I will be sure not to damage the car… There is no crime right? Thanks for nothing Long Beach Police department. Yet another fine example of my taxes going to waste… No money to educate our kids, but these $%&^%^#$ PIGS get a nice salary, benefits and pension for doing nothing… FU!

HELICOPTER!!!
I need an explanation for the LBPD helicopter that is in flight 24 – 7 circling the shore constantly and buzzing the beach. In an average week, we prabaly listen to it circling the neighborhood for 3 – 4 hours, and that’s just when we’re home.
I would like to believe they are chasing burglars and car thieves hiding in backyards. Unfortunately this is not the case. I’ve witnessed the cause of the chopper’s presence several times, once involving a drunk that required 3 cruisers and the chopper for 45 minutes and another time for a car pulled over.
I grew up 8 miles north of Detroit for 10 years and not once did a helicopter circle my neighborhood.
Lastly, why do I see the LBPD chopper cruising the F-​ing beach so often, even in Sunset Beach? Most of the time it looks like a pilot taking people on joyrides. I just pray they keep up the preventive maintenance on it and have reliable pilots, because if it ever falls out of the sky, you can bet it will take out a house or two, I just hope it’s not mine.
I understand it is an indispensable tool for keeping the community safe, but at the same time it should be used responsibly and as needed. My own opinion is that it is more of a hazard and nuisance to the residents of Long Beach than any help to us.

It’s a mixed blessing (no pun intended) to live down the street from a church and sometimes, when the call of Jesus is strong, some believers feel they have a god-​given right to park where they want, no matter it may inconvenience others or even be a safety concern. And so it was today when a Baptist practitioner felt empowered to park and block my driveway even though he had about 12′ extra space to park his beast. A call to LBPD had a black and white there within 10 minutes talking to the owner who miraculously showed up out of the blue, like a bolt from heaven above, only to be told that he was being inconsiderate of others and cited. His excuse that «he was late for church» fell on deaf ears and blessed he was that his vehicle wasn’t towed anyway. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!
Thank you, LBPD, North Division.