Beverly Hills was overwhelmed by a wave of crime

In December of last year, several foreign news outlets wrote that residents of one of the most respectable areas of the United States - Beverly Hills - began feverishly buying firearms and strengthening their homes. Russell Stewart, the owner of the only “Beverly Hills Guns” gun store in the district, told ABC 7 in his interview that his business is undergoing a real boom, moreover, people of different income levels are among the buyers.

"We've seen an uptick in watch robberies, car thefts, follow-home invasions because of the climate of crime in Beverly Hills and throughout the Greater Los Angeles area. People have been driven to focus more on their own personal safety," Stewart said.

Among the buyers is 24-year-old Emily Junkins, here's how she explained the acquisition of the gun: "There's a ton of families that live around here. This is a really good, cute area and it really just started to go downhill about a year ago and made me feel unsafe as a citizen and as a young woman who lives alone. I just took matters into my own hands. I felt that was the best option.” Emily turned to a gun store after several shootings near her house.

Firearms are not the only means of self-defence that Americans are trying to use to protect themselves and their property from bandit gangs. The Grove shopping centre was forced to fence itself with a spiral wire wall to protect itself from "youth gangs”, CNN reports.

Spiral wire is a fairly humane means of protection aimed at tangling a person without causing injury. But, as journalists note, this is a weak obstacle for thugs, and it will probably have to be "replaced with old-fashioned barbed wire”, since the raiders entered the Nordstrom store "using a sledgehammer and an electric bicycle, causing $15,000 worth of damage and taking away $5,000 worth of goods”.

"We have crime right here. Across the street they had a safe stolen out of the wall. A lot of us are watching one another now,” said resident Sherry Tedeschi, who has lived in Beverly Hills for half a century, sharing her concerns with ABC 7. The publication Hollywood Reporter, in its turn, reports that wealthy residents of Los Angeles and its suburbs are forced to buy armoured cars, install vandal-proof glass on the windows of their homes and wear cheap replicas instead of Rolex watches.

The citizens see the reason for the robberies of shops and shopping centres in the national policy on "minor crimes" and zero bail. According to the current law in California, you can steal with impunity for less than $950.

But robberies, even such high-profile ones as, for example, the theft of handbags and watches worth a million dollars from actress Dorit Kemsley, are not the worst problem faced by Los Angeles and its suburbs, including Beverly Hills. According to police department reports and a statement from Sheriff Villanueva, the number of homicides in Los Angeles County increased by 94% from 2019 to 2021, and car thefts were 65% more.

The most high-profile murder at the end of 2021, which caused a general panic and provoked the purchase of firearms in self-defence, was the murder of Jacqueline Avant, the wife of the famous musical figure Clarence Avant. An 82-year-old woman was shot dead in her own home at the Trousdale Estates residence during an armed robbery.

The criminal entered the house through a broken window, wounding a guard who came running. A suspect with an AR-15 rifle was later arrested in the process of another robbery in the Hollywood Hills. It turned out to be 29-year-old Aariel Maynor - a man with a "rich criminal past”, Fox News reports.

TV channels are tolerantly silent about the national composition of gangs, so as not to be accused of racism. According to statistics, in large cities, about 60% of all crimes are committed by representatives of African-American groups, despite the fact that they make up no more than a third of the population.

But for the sake of the BLM movement, government agencies and the press diligently turn a blind eye to this fact. Everyone knows what an absurdity the "fight against racism" comes to. The black part of society is given priority when applying for a job, in medical care and when entering educational institutions.

The aggressive policy of the Netflix film studio, which has been dubbed "promoters of black racism”, of rewriting history deserves separate consideration. These are not only ridiculous stories about giving black actors the roles of famous white historical characters where Africans could not be physically: the Russian Count Rostov from “Great”, Zeus and Achilles in the Fall of Troy, but also the openly promoting "black racism" series "Pose" or "Dear White People".

Here is how the French magazine Le Figaro speaks about such "progressive" creativity: "The Belgian women's magazine L'Officiel has compiled a list of six series to educate and combat systemic racism. Buzzfeed noted 16 Netflix series that are worth watching when you're sick of patriarchy."

The American media did not name the skin colour of the killer of the elderly Jacqueline Avant in her elite family nest either. But if you look at the image published by the news agency, then everything becomes clear. An African-American recidivist with a tattooed face, released early from prison, looks at the viewer with a challenge. By a bitter irony of fate, the unfortunate woman was the mother-in-law of Ted Sarandos, the CEO of Netflix.