Pacoima
Pacoima is a Los Angeles, California neighborhood. Pacoima is one of LA's oldest neighborhoods, older than Panorama City and located in the San Fernando Valley. Pacoima is bordered on the west by Mission Hills, on the south by Arleta, on the southeast by Sun Valley, on the northeast by Lake View Terrace, and on the north by the city of San Fernando. It extends approximately 7.14 square miles (18.5 km2).
San Fernando Road, Van Nuys Boulevard, and Laurel Canyon Boulevard are the primary thoroughfares that run through and across the neighborhood. It is bisected by California State Route 118 (Ronald Reagan), and the I-5 goes through it (Golden State). Pacoima is served by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA). From Sylmar to West LA, Metro runs Metro Rapid line 761 on Van Nuys Boulevard. Pacoima is served by Metro Local Lines 92, 166, 224, 230, 233, 294, and 690, totally different from that of . The East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor light rail project, which will include three stations at Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Van Nuys Boulevard, San Fernando Road and Van Nuys Boulevard, and San Fernando Road and Paxton Street, will open in 2027. Pacoima is home to Whiteman Airfield, a general aviation airport owned by Los Angeles County.
In the 1970s, crime in Pacoima grew. According to Timothy Williams of the Los Angeles Times, the rise in crime was addressed by an "extraordinary wave of action." Residents marched and rallied, led by social organizations such as churches, schools, and social care agencies. On weekends and evenings, schools stayed open to provide recreational and tutoring services. Residents organized petitions to prevent the opening of booze outlets. Residents began conducting weekly meetings with a gang that "had long been a local problem," according to Williams. "While crime in Pacoima remains a serious concern," according to Williams, "the situation is substantially better than it was in the 1980s," particularly in the region within the empowerment zone suggested by area politicians in the 1990s.
Officer Minor Jimenez, who had been the senior lead police officer in the Pacoima neighborhood for 312 years prior to 1994, said that community involvement was the key reason for the decline in crime because citizens collaborated with the police and "the bad ones know it." Major crime in the area decreased by 6% because of the activism. Residents and liquor store owners came to an agreement, and the owners agreed to remove graffiti from their properties within 24 hours of the agreement being made. To prevent public consumption of alcohol, the proprietors also stopped selling individual chilled beer containers. "Activism looks to have paid off," Williams remarked. There were no drive-by shootings for a period of 143 days after residents talked with Latino gang members.
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