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Reinhold (J): After three days of arson and looting, 3,767 buildings were burned. The office of State Senator Diane E. Watson provided shovels and brooms as racially mixed volunteers from all over the community helped clean and 13,000 police and troops patrolled the area protecting gas stations and food stores that were not affected by the looting and were able to reopen along with other areas such as the Universal Studios tour, dance halls, and bars. After President George H.W. Bush signed a declaration of disaster, it activated Federal relief efforts for the victims of the looting and arson which included grants and low-cost loans to cover their property losses and donations were given to help with food and medicine. As the Supreme court extended the 48-hour deadline to 96 hours for charging defendants, on May 3, 1992, 6,345 people were arrested and 44 dead bodies were still being identified by using fingerprints, driver's license, or dental records. New York Times(A): By May 16, 1992, 51 men and 7 women were dead because of the riots and the Los Angeles Cornor's Office listed 50 of the 58 people dead as homicide victims. Forty-one of the victims were shot to death, seven were killed in traffic accidents, four died in fires, three were beaten to death, two were fatally stabbed, and one died of a heart attack.

HeraldNet(F):According to the Los Angeles police statistics, violent crime fell by 76% between 1992 and 2010 and tensions between racial groups have lessened.

Tomaszewski: over $1 billion in property damage Ramirez: 77% percent of residents feel the economic situation in Los Angeles has significantly worsened. 60% of residents reported racial tension has improved in the past 20 years with decreased gang activity. Many organizations stepped forward to rebuild Los Angeles; South Central's Operation Hope and Koreatown's Saigu and KCCD (Korean Churches for Community Development), they all raised millions to repair destruction and improve economic development.

McDonald: the population change, the black population dropped by 123,000 after the riots and grew more than 450,000 in Latino population from 1992-2007. , few of the rebuilding plans came to be because business investors as well as the community members rejected South L.A The majority of the local stores were never rebuilt. Today, billions of dollars have been put into renovating Hollywood and have turned ‘crack neighborhoods’ and cleaned it up.

Hayden: after the riots in Los Angeles in 1992, the Rebuild LA promised $6billion in private investment to create 74,000 jobs but, it didn’t go through after a few year and in contrast lost 50,000 jobs.

Larson: they did want to rebuild their business but couldn’t because they had trouble getting loans and the myths have discourages investment in the area and has prevented the growth of employment