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# ✆ The new police chief must be physically, mentally and emotionally very strong.
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/new-top-cop-should-have-thick-skin-this-past-week-q-line-asked-what-qualities-should-the-next-police-chief-possess-what-does-he-or-she-need-to-do-to-m/
- Published: 2006-09-02T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T21:22:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Crime, Santa Monica, #archive-import, Homeless

✆ “The new police chief must be physically, mentally and emotionally very strong. Very insightful, very forward and positive in his or her approach to the job ahead, and very much a person of personal integrity. An individual who knows how to listen, but is still a stable and secure person within themselves. He or she must not be swayed or unduly influenced by all the carping from all sides. Sometimes tough love is the answer. Law and order, but with a reasonable amount of compassion. As with outgoing Chief Butts, he or she must be an example and an inspiration to the men and women who work under his or her direction to protect and serve our community.” ✆ “I think that we need to have our streets paved a little better. And I know that’s not really for the police chief to decide, but it’s a mess, particularly right here on Arizona. I’m a disabled person, and yesterday this very nice black male cop asked me why I couldn’t get up on the sidewalk. And I said ‘Well, sometimes I don’t have the strength.’ But we need a police chief who is going to be nice and polite number one. Number two, that we are going to get our streets re-paved. And number three, see about getting rid of the homeless. A lot of towns around here have homeless too, but they all seem to flock to Santa Monica. And number four, to be super nice.” ✆ “I believe the new police chief for Santa Monica should be selected from a current Santa Monica police office. And who has at least spent 10 years as a Santa Monica police officer. Now, make your selection from that group.” ✆ “Regardless of where one travels, chiefs of police are cut from the same swatch of material. An experienced police officer understands the spirit of law, as well as the letter of the law.” ✆ “Whoever they get for chief of police should have a quality of knowing how to deal with idiots such as the ones on the City Council. As far as making the city more livable, they should do something about the gang problems. But mainly do something about the bums. They should start arresting bums for loitering in the alleys, start arresting bums when they steal shopping carts, start arresting bums when they throw their junk all over the park so no one else can use it. That would make Santa Monica a more livable city...” ✆ “For police chief we don’t need a healer or a conciliator. We need someone to kick butt and take names. And I don’t mean going after hedge height violators. I mean they should start beating the crap out of the gang-bangers, vandals, grafittists and the criminal homeless, not the harmless homeless. Then when mothers and relatives start boo-hooing about the police beating on their spawn from hell, the chief should tell them to shut the ‘F’ up. Oh wait, I’m dreaming.” ✆ “The police chief and city manager should be elected offices. The new chief should agree with the vast majority of people in California and implement Proposition 215 and if passed, the new law low priority pot laws.” ✆ “The next chief should be a woman of color to help level the playing field against white capitalistic success. It is a proven fact that women are more sensitive and would be very understanding of the homeless especially when one is urinating in front of your children at a park or school. She could purchase more cameras for surveillance of those people not taking the bus, not riding their bicycles and not singing the Santa Monica anthem, really the French national anthem, the La Marseillaise, and also people smoking in the parks. Since the council is already made up of women they would be supportive of her stationing female officers at Virginia Park. They could gather information on where all the money for the non-profit gang outreach programs went to. Gang-bangers love to talk to the senoritas. It is a proven scientific fact that it is beyond that the number of women working at City Hall. Still, a female chief would be a cache to the next five year leftist social engineering program.” ✆ “I am hoping that the new police chief will make it a strong point to enforce safe driving rules. The city has gotten to the point of having a lot of unsafe and extremely rude drivers. We need to get back to safety and courtesy, which was once upon a time Santa Monica.” ✆ “Our batty City Council first hires a city manager from another completely corrupt town and now he’s going to hire our police chief? This sounds more like news from Baghdad.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 2, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/090206.pdf?ref=smdp.com)