With another New Year’s celebration days away, Los Angeles law enforcement officials are renewing their annual plea: don’t blast in the New Year with a firearm.
The police call it indiscriminate or celebratory gun fire. While the problem has declined since the late 1990s, there’s still something about the first few minutes of a New Year that makes some people want to fire shots into the air.
"What goes up will come down. And we have no idea where those rounds will land," says Sandy Jo MacArthur, assistant chief the Los Angeles Police Department.
"Fortunately for us in Los Angeles, we haven’t had a death as a result of indiscriminate gun fire on New Year’s Eve since 1997," says MacArthur. "We wanna keep that record going."
MacArthur says more people have reported such shots to the police. New sonar technology helps officers locate the shooters. She warned anyone considering such a celebration that if they’re aught and convicted, they could spend time in prison.
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