LAPD officers responded to fewer calls for service in June than in May and July, likely the result of weeks of deployments of hundreds of officers for crowd control -- tied to protests over more aggressive federal immigration enforcement , the department said Tuesday.

Call-for-service data analyzed by NBC4 Investigates showed the LAPD logged 106,942 calls in June, a 21% reduction from the 136,405 calls recorded in May. The number of calls rose to 129,878 in July.

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“During this period of time, I would attribute it to the tactical alert," Chief Jim McDonnell told NBCLA of the reduction being the result of the crowd control assignments that pulled officers away from their regular neighborhood patrol assignments.

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