Residents in a Pico-Robertson neighborhood say they are fed up and feeling helpless after repeated break-ins have shattered their sense of safety.
Surveillance cameras at a condo complex in the 800 block of Wooster Street show the building getting broken into.
The suspects look straight into the camera as they attempt to make entry through the front door.
Once inside, they roam the underground parking garage and start breaking into residents’ vehicles.
“I’ve had to call 911 three times in a span of five days, which is something I’ve never experienced before,” resident Kayla Lebo told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo.
Along with the repeated break-ins and her car getting burglarized, she says she no longer feels safe.
“I’m feeling helpless. I have to walk around with pepper spray and a taser. I’m applying to get my CCW,” she said. “I don’t feel protected and when I call law enforcement, they’re not giving me any sense of security.”
Authorities at the Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded to the first break-in on Feb. 19, but then the building was hit by thieves two more times.