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Robin Abcarian

Robin Abcarian: Do video cameras make you feel safe, or just show you how dangerous your neighborhood is?

The young woman was unconscious, near death, outside the bathrooms south of the Venice Pier. Her jaw was broken, and she was naked from the waist down. Abrasions on her heels indicated she'd been dragged across the parking lot, likely after being sexually assaulted.

How would police figure out who brutalized this woman?

Maybe the assault, which occurred on Sept. 8, 2020, was caught on some of the many surveillance cameras in the area, which is home to a dozen or more restaurants, coffee shops, bars and liquor stores?

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