By Eileen Garrison Santa Monica
Santa Monica police are really hard up to write their quota of tickets, or is it that the city are so hard up for cash (SMDP, July 1, page 1)? To the officer who wrote the ticket for the working photographer, shame on you. What kind of goodwill is that? Get a life and write tickets for those people who deserve it, such as homeless who urinate in doorways, break beer bottles on the streets, bash in storefront windows, get drunk and sleep in alleys, steal grocery carts from supermarkets, go through alleys at 2 a.m. in the morning waking up hard working citizens who get up every morning and go to work. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 3, 2004. Read the original PDF.