{"id":337882,"date":"2025-10-28T07:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337882\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:29:10","slug":"community-safety-advisory-issued-after-numerous-break-ins-at-the-lorenzo-annenberg-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337882\/","title":{"rendered":"Community safety advisory issued after numerous break-ins at The Lorenzo \u2013 Annenberg Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Following three burglaries this month at The Lorenzo, an off-campus apartment complex, USC\u2019s Department of Public Safety (DPS) <a href=\"https:\/\/dps.usc.edu\/2025\/10\/26\/community-safety-advisory-burglary-prevention-2\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent out a community safety advisory<\/a> Sunday afternoon, making students aware of an uptick in thefts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe saw some commonalities [between the three],\u201d said David Carlisle, assistant chief of DPS. \u201cTwo of the burglaries occurred while the students were at home. It\u2019s unusual to have a burglar try to burglarize a house or an apartment when a person is at home, so that is very concerning.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carlisle said that one student was sleeping and awoke to find property missing from the common area in their apartment. The individual was unclear whether or not their door was locked at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Another burglar entered an apartment through an open window, Carlisle said. The third burglary was witnessed by a resident who was in their apartment at the time. The individual saw the burglar cut through their window screen and reach through the open window. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere are some simple steps that can really help you from becoming victimized,\u201d Carlisle said. He advised students to \u201ctake simple precautions,\u201d including locking their doors, closing their windows, and leaving the television or a light on to give the impression that someone is home at all times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carlisle\u2019s biggest piece of advice to students is to lock their doors, because \u201cmany students don\u2019t do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mehar Haleem, a non-USC student and a resident at The Lorenzo, does not typically lock her front door.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cKeys are annoying, and nothing has ever happened,\u201d said Haleem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An email from Lorenzo management Monday afternoon reminded residents that the apartment doors do not lock automatically. The email also informed residents to always lock their doors, have their entry lanyards visible, refrain from propping open doors and keep valuables out of sight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alexa Perez, a senior studying health and human sciences, has lived in The Lorenzo for the last three years. Although she always locks her front door, she knows other residents are not as careful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Perez said that because the property houses non-students and is large, safety issues are complex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI believe that there should be more security measures in place, and now with DPS addressing the situation, I hope The Lorenzo takes steps forward to enforce the measures in place,\u201d Perez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Lorenzo declined Annenberg Media\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following three burglaries this month at The Lorenzo, an off-campus apartment complex, USC\u2019s Department of Public Safety (DPS)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":337883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[69774,49765,1582,276,718,6290,36752,19588,2961,166903,166902,224,5337,166901,7307,45000],"class_list":{"0":"post-337882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-break-ins","9":"tag-burglaries","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-community","13":"tag-door","14":"tag-dps","15":"tag-key","16":"tag-la","17":"tag-lock","18":"tag-lorenzo","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-safety-advisory","22":"tag-victim","23":"tag-window"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}