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# Reader questions statement in article
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/reader-questions-statement-in-article-editor/
- Published: 2003-05-23T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:09:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pico, #archive-import

*By Bob Moncrief Housing and redevelopment manager City of Santa Monica*

In your May 22 article on the recent Pico shootings, your reporter Carolyn Sackariason writes “Tuesday’s incident marks the fourth shooting incident in 12 days all within a few blocks of 17th Street, where a fair amount of publicly-funded, low-income housing units are located.”

Does Ms. Sackariason have any evidence that the shootings have anything to do with the residents of publicly-funded low-income housing in the area? If not, her inference represents to me irresponsible journalism, and perhaps reveals a personal bias against the low-income people who live in the publicly-funded housing in the Pico neighborhood. Who is editing her work to make sure she gets it right? Exactly what was her point anyway? (Editor’s note: The information was included in the story because of recent comments by neighborhood residents questioning whether criminal background checks should be conducted for public housing tenants. That information should have been included in the May 22 article. The Daily Press regrets the inference.)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 23, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/052303.pdf?ref=smdp.com)