A public school in Watts, located four blocks from Verbum Dei High School, has a graduation rate of 30%.

While serving as Los Angeles police commissioner with Bill Bratton, crime was reduced to levels not seen since 1950.

Private organizations in Los Angeles, such as the Downtown Women's Center and Union Rescue Mission, provide housing and services for the homeless at half the cost of city programs and with a 90% effec...

Verbum Dei High School in Watts has a 100% graduation rate, with 100% of its students going on to a college or junior college.

Los Angeles experienced its lowest number of housing starts in the last decade during the most recent year.

Last year, the city of Los Angeles spent an average of $1 million per person to move 1,500 homeless individuals off the street.