Councilman Rosendahl spoke like a politician,"Gang Czar"  Jeff  Carr was  informative regarding what his department does, the original press release was read and a handful of people in the audience made ridiculous rambling comments.

What I learned…  it appears not many witness's are speaking up out of fear,  Venice is not included as an official LAPD gang zone ( would provide more funds for this type of stuff if it was). Everything else said we already knew from prior reports.

I did leave with the feeling that the LAPD Pacific Divison DOES know what they're doing when it comes to homicides and will  probably find the shooter (8 homicides this year including the 2 most recent, 6 solved).

It is actually not a branch of government at all.  This is a completely independent group of concerned Venice stakeholders (renters, owners, student, and workers) who, through local Venice community elections, are elected to various positions to represent us to local government.  I am not sure they have much power either, but they do have some influence and have helped move a number of initiatives forward, and we know that someone out there is looking out for us.

Here is their website if you want to learn more:  http://www.grvnc.org/