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# Letter: Cleaning up Venice's blighted areas and removing gang members
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/091308-story-20080913-3/
- Published: 2008-09-13T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T21:01:07.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Venice, #archive-import

“WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF JUNKY AREAS in Venice. It’s gonna take a long, long time and a lot of money to make it better. They have to get rid of all the junky people first like the gang-bangers and the illegal aliens.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 13, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/091308.pdf?ref=smdp.com)