LOS ANGELES >> As Los Angeles police increase their resources, Mayor Eric Garcetti condemned the fatal shooting of three officers in Baton Rouge Sunday “in the strongest possible terms,” saying the incident has come to reflect “a horrifying trend.”

“There is no justification for the taking of the lives of officers who were in their communities doing their job today,” Garcetti said in a statement Sunday.

The Los Angeles Police Department is adding resources to ensure the department and other public safety agencies are supported, the mayor said.

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“This includes doubling our air assets, shifting Metropolitan Division officers to a role of force protection to help back up patrol officers responding to calls for service and adding additional resources to help screen our 911 calls,” Garcetti said.

Earlier Sunday an LAPD spokesman said the department was monitoring the situation. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department statement said there was no immediate or credible threats to the greater Los Angeles area.

Garcetti said his heart goes out to the families of the three Baton Rouge officers killed Sunday as well as the employees of the Baton Rouge Police Department and the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.

“Our collective voice must rise up to condemn this latest shooting in what is unfortunately becoming a horrifying trend,” Garcetti said.

“Too many days recently, our hearts are aching as a result of unthinkable violence in our country, but we cannot turn away from our mission to protect and to serve,” Garcetti said. “We must turn to each other and the urgent work that remains.”