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# Letter: Readers Complain About Police Helicopter Noise Over Santa Monica
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/030307-story-20070303-11/
- Published: 2007-03-03T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:11:33.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Venice, #archive-import

“WE DON’T LIVE IN SOUTH CENTRAL and we don’t live in Venice. I lived in Venice recently and those choppers are up constantly for the gang bangers. If someone has been shot and somebody escaped then a helicopter is in order. If not, what’s the deal with the bird in the sky? This is Santa Monica, an up-scale area. The encroachment of sirens and all that is not necessary. The whole reason we’re here is the ocean and the peace and quite. If I wanted to live in South Central or Venice, I know exactly where they are and I could pay a lot cheaper rent.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 3, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)