Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Monday afternoon pushed back the start time of the city’s emergency curfew for parts of downtown by two hours, citing what she described as “successful crime prevention and suppression efforts.”

The updated curfew took effect Monday night from 10 p.m.-6 a.m., instead of the previous start time at 8 p.m. It applies to portions of Chinatown, Little Tokyo, the Fashion District and the Arts District in downtown.

Bass first implemented the curfew on June 10 in response to increases in vandalism and public safety concerns in the wake of protests over federal immigration raids.

In a statement on Monday, Bass said the adjusted hours reflected an evolving situation.

“The curfew, coupled with ongoing crime prevention efforts, have been largely successful in protecting stores, restaurants, businesses and residential communities from bad actors who do not care about the immigrant community,” she said. “Today, I am narrowing the curfew as we continue to quickly adjust to changing posturing out of Washington. I want the Downtown Los Angeles community of residents, business owners and events venues to know that my priority will continue to be ensuring safety, stability and support in the Downtown neighborhoods.”

Prior to Monday’s announcement, some business owners and downtown associations had raised concerns about the toll the early curfew was taking on businesses and foot traffic.

Nolan A. Marshall III, president and CEO of The Social District — downtown’s rebranded South Park Business Improvement District, which spans 52 blocks and is anchored by the Convention Center and Crypto.com Arena — had urged city officials to lift the curfew, citing its impact on businesses and workers.

“While the damage from looting was clear and observable, the harm to restaurants and their staffs caused by loss of patronage is equally damaging,” he wrote in a letter to city leaders that was also shared on social media. “Less perceptible is the long-term reputational harm being done to Downtown Los Angeles. As we still struggle to regain pre-pandemic momentum as a vibrant residential and social hub of the region, we can’t afford to perpetuate the perception that all of Downtown Los Angeles is overrun with bad actors when we know this to not be true.”

While some called for the curfew to be lifted, others had supported its implementation.

Nella McOsker, president and CEO of Central City Association — an advocacy group that represents hundreds of businesses across downtown Los Angeles — had urged the city to enact the curfew last week, citing concerns over public safety and reports of vandalism during protests. On Monday, she said the decision to push the start time back was a welcome adjustment.

“This is a step in the right direction for opening downtown L.A. back up for visitors, for patrons to restaurants and shows and entertainment experiences,” McOsker said in a phone interview Monday. “It’s also better and healthier for residents who live here.”

She said the curfew “must be lifted” eventually.

“And we have to strike the balance between public safety and protection of businesses and residents in downtown with a more permanent policy framework that allows local law enforcement and others to respond to potential violence or criminal activity,” McOsker added, “but make sure that people can walk around safely and enjoy and experience downtown as they ought to.”

It’s unclear how long Bass’ dusk-to-dawn curfew will continue to encircle a 1-square-mile area, as scattered protests continue downtown — though much smaller than the massive “No Kings” marches on Saturday.

The City Council will weigh in on the curfew at its next meeting.

Council members are scheduled to meet on Tuesday to consider extending the curfew covering a one-square-mile zone that Bass enacted in response to vandalism and looting during protests over the Trump administration’s amped-up immigration-enforcement raids.

The council will discuss the mayor’s declaration and take potential steps to ratify and extend it.

Bass had said there was no “termination date” for the curfew during a Friday news conference. She reported that it was “making a difference” in curtailing criminal activity.

Protests erupted on June 6 after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents began detaining migrants in the city. While most demonstrations have remained peaceful, police and city officials said that some gatherings turned destructive after dark, with looting and vandalism blamed on so-called “bad actors.”‘

On the fifth day of protests, Bass declared a local emergency in downtown and imposed the curfew.

“We are hoping that if the cause of the turmoil ends, which is stopping the raids, then I can almost guarantee you that curfew will go away,” Bass previously said.

Bass eased some corners of the rules since then, including allowing some theatrical performances within the city’s dusk-to-dawn curfew area to return to the stage.

“The Los Angeles Mayor’s Office has updated guidance on the downtown L.A.-area curfew and has granted an exception to allow individuals with tickets to an indoor venue to attend that event as scheduled,” said a statement released by the group that manages performances at the L.A. Music Center.

But downtown business and resident groups were hoping the curfew will be lifted immediately.

“Policy in response to civil unrest has to strike a balance between the potential losses from property damage and looting, and the ongoing loss realized by workers and businesses as a result of the curfew,” Marshall’s Social District statement said. “After hearing from our stakeholders, I believe we have reached a tipping point where the latter will have a greater economic impact than the former.”

Meanwhile, the Downtown Los Angeles Residents Association, known as DTLA RA, surveyed its members, finding 84% do not want the 8 p.m. curfew to continue. The survey found 43% of residents want the curfew to end outright, while another 41% support phasing it out, starting with bumping it up to 10 p.m. Only 9% of those surveyed want to keep the 8 p.m. curfew as is, according to DTLA RA.

The group said it shared the survey results in a letter to city leaders, which also noted that protests and disruptions downtown “will inevitably continue to ratchet up over the next four years and our quality of life and local economy is already suffering as it is.”

“Many residents do feel like the curfew was an effective tool in response to Monday’s serious looting and unrest, and that it likely was helpful yesterday given the crowd size and broader context, but moving forward, the damage will far outweigh the good for our community,” Cassy Horton, co-founder of the DTLA RA said in the letter.

Some performances in the curfew area were postponed over the weekend, amid concern raised by the “No Kings” protests inspired by President Donald Trump’s military parade on Saturday to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the U.S. armed forces. But most evening performances were expected to return to stages this week at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The Broad museum, closed over the weekend, was expected to reopen Tuesday.

Other exemptions from the curfew:

First responders and public-safety workers.

People who live in the curfew area.

Workers in the area, including construction crews and utility crews.

Media representatives with credentials.

Homeless people.

National Guard and Marine Corps in the area remain under the orders of Trump, who federalized and deployed them over the weekend amid community demonstrations against stepped-up federal immigration enforcement operations.

Bass and community leaders took issue Thursday with suggestions by Trump and others that the entire city was under a siege of violence necessitating deployment of the military, including the 4,000 federalized National Guard troops and 700 active-duty U.S. Marines.

Despite ongoing community protests, immigration raids were expected to continue this week in the Southland amid Trump administration guidance focusing on cities run by elected Democrats, while cutting back on enforcement at farms, hotels and restaurants.

“ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History,” Trump posted Sunday on Truth Social, his social media platform.

“In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs a

Meanwhile, protesters returned to the streets of downtown Southern California on Sunday, one day after a nationwide series of demonstrations against Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and other policies drew massive crowds to the Civic Center and communities throughout Southern California and the nation.

City News Service contributed to this report