Los Angeles City Councilmember John Lee is putting in $60,000 into his district to fortify electrical boxes.
Copper wire is becoming a popular item that thieves are targeting, stealing cables from local municipal light poles. Thieves are going into electrical boxes, which are technically owned by the city, and ripping the wires right out.
Lee's office is working with a $60,000 pilot program to ensure that 110 light poles in the district are vandal proof. Crews are burring the electrical boxes and covering them with steel and cement. They're welding shut access points, making it much more difficult for thieves to steal the lucrative copper wire.
The ultimate goal is for this plan to go city wide. The bureau of street lighting is investing $11 million this year into finding ways to fortify the city's 220-thousand street lights. For home owner Peter Khai, the resent rise in light outages at night in his neighborhood has certainly created concern for him and his family at night.
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