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# Letter: Complaints about sirens, noise and the city's homeless population
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/030307-story-20070303-3/
- Published: 2007-03-03T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:11:18.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

“UNFORTUNATELY, THESE ARE THE sounds that now attempt to keep us safe. And add to that dreadful racket, the ambulance sirens roaring all day long and all through the night. And all of this unbearable racket is due in large part to the burgeoning vagrant criminal, drug addicted, alcoholic, mentally ill population that has invaded our city thanks to the inefficient, indifferent idiots on the City Council.”

*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)