Depends on where you live. Hancock park? Sure, no petty crime other than burglaries. Pretty much anywhere else but the most bougie neighborhoods are rife with petty crime.
When I flew for the holidays my bike was stolen out of a gated garage. LAPD isn't going to jump on a grenade for my bike. Cars parked along the street are regularly targeted for smash and grabs. The nearby encampment maintains a cache of torn apart electric scooters and bike parts (maybe mine is in there too). I've been on a bus that was 'ambushed' for a bike mounted in the rack out front. Last week on the train two unstable men made eye contact and started posturing and raising their voices, one pulled a shiv out of his pocket and luckily the other one fled the car, but that could have been bad. Life on the west side, but I still wouldn't trade it for anything.
Huh. My recent time's been on the west side too, my neighborhoods have been decidedly middle-of-the-road (def not most bougie), transport stops close, homeless people camping nearby fairly common, sometimes in alcoves of my current building. Still haven't drawn the property crime lottery. The biggest thing for me, though, has been visiting places like Carson, Gardena, and Inglewood realizing they seem safer (though safer than the early 90s might not be a really high bar).
Sorry about the bike, though, maybe that's a signal for me to be a little less casual with stuff in the garage, and I definitely feel you about encounters with people on public transport.
When I flew for the holidays my bike was stolen out of a gated garage. LAPD isn't going to jump on a grenade for my bike. Cars parked along the street are regularly targeted for smash and grabs. The nearby encampment maintains a cache of torn apart electric scooters and bike parts (maybe mine is in there too). I've been on a bus that was 'ambushed' for a bike mounted in the rack out front. Last week on the train two unstable men made eye contact and started posturing and raising their voices, one pulled a shiv out of his pocket and luckily the other one fled the car, but that could have been bad. Life on the west side, but I still wouldn't trade it for anything.