Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Wednesday touted a sharp decline in the city's homicide rate in the first half of 2025, saying that the 20% decrease has the city on pace for the lowest total in nearly six decades.

Bass said this is due to comprehensive safety strategies implemented with law enforcement and community organizations.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass announced Tuesday that the city will join a lawsuit against the Trump administration intended to stop federal immigration raids.

Mayor Karen Bass and LA City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto take legal action to stop federal immigration raids in Los Angeles that they claim violate the Constitution and federal law.

The mayor spoke a day after Trump’s Department of Justice sued the city, saying its sanctuary law hinders the federal government’s fight against illegal immigration.