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# Feeling safe in Santa Monica
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/feeling-safe-in-santa-monica-20080329/
- Published: 2008-03-29T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T19:04:29.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

This past week, Q-line asked: In light of a pair of recent murders do you still feel safe in Santa Monica? If not, what are you doing to protect yourself?

Here are your responses: CALL NOW TO GET $50 OFF THE PRICE OF THE TOTAL PROGRAM 2001 S. Barrington Ave. West L.A. 310.473.2020 “NO, I ABSOLUTELY NO LONGER FEEL safe in Santa Monica. The large and growing numbers of vagrants, most of whom are jail birds and assorted criminals, are all around us, 24/7\. The police and the park rangers need to get out of their vehicles and patrol the streets, and parks and maybe even dress in civilian clothes so that they can see what the average citizen has to put up with on a daily basis. And what am I doing to protect myself? I stay in my house.”

“I STILL FEEL SAFE IN SANTA MONICA, even though we’ve had these murders, because if you take my solution we shall never have murders again. I noticed in the crime watch of your paper every Friday, 90 percent of the crimes are committed by transients, if we got rid of all the transients, and I think that these two murders were done by transients, and as I said if we got rid of all the transients, I don’t think we would have any more crime in Santa Monica at all.”

“HAVING LIVED IN HOLLYWOOD MYSELF and being familiar with many of the places more dangerous than Santa Monica, I know pretty well what to do to protect myself, and have the necessary streets skills to avoid dangerous situations. Too many people get lulled into a false sense of security, and don’t take the necessary precautions, I personally am not changing my routine, and I don’t see any need to.”

“ONE HAS TO REMEMBER THAT EVEN here in the city of Santa Monica by the sea, we are part of greater Los Angeles. Yes, it is a little disconcerting, but we got to remember that we are part of a big huge city.”

“LOCK YOUR DOORS, YOUR WINDOWS, shelter your children. Yes, these two murders are indeed terribly sad, but they are no more different than what the city has felt in the last few years, or seen, with the ‘98 murders of Mike Juarez, Anthony Juarez, Marty Campos, and the list goes on. Santa Monica is an incorporated part of Los Angeles therefore we are Los Angeles. In fact we are the edge and the ledge of Los Angeles. Santa Monica is as west as it gets. Murders, robberies, burglaries, home invasions, prostitution, vagrants and homeless: It’s nothing new in Santa Monica. So you ask, in light of the recent murders what are people doing to protect themselves... you should be more aware of your surroundings at all times, and ask questions of people who you don’t recognize in your neighborhoods.”

“OH WHAT EVILS WE PUT UP WITH TO GET cheap rent! The socialist agenda of our City Council has endangered all of us, with their city finance, affordable gang housing, selling out to tourism, and big development, and allowing thieving transients, and insane homeless to run our streets, but of course, they have given us our landlord subsidized cheap rents.”

“I DO NOT FEEL SAFE IN SANTA MONICA and I haven’t felt safe here for about six years. I have been physically attacked and beaten three times, once by a drunk, once by a mentally ill person, and recently by an automobile driver. I think there is a very serious problem with landlords hiring illegals off the streets. My landlord does it all the time, and as a result we have bicycles stolen and other property, and I think that’s a very serious problem. I think laws need to be passed to protect us.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 29, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032908.pdf?ref=smdp.com)