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# Letter: Residents Complain About Noisy Police Helicopter Overhead
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/030307-story-20070303-6/
- Published: 2007-03-03T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:11:24.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

“THE SOUNDS ARE NOT ONLY inconvenient, but we don’t need that stupid helicopter. Tell them to please find a better way, a quieter way to police our city. We need community based policing with officers on the ground. That helicopter is horrendous, horrific. It wakes me up every ten minutes. It flies this way and that way. It’s awful.”

*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)