By Stewart Resmer Santa Monica
Once again, in a seemingly never-ending pattern, there has been gunfire resulting in injury in Santa Monica in the same area, week after week, month after month, year after year (“Tensions run high in Pico,” Aug. 29). It is tantamount to a shooting gallery.
It is not as if the city were so big, like Los Angeles, there was no way to cover the area? It’s the same relatively small geographic area and the same method. It seems to me, the SMPD are ineffective to stop this sort of violence and (City Council), as the elected representatives of the people, have some real decisions to make in order to come to a point where this violence is stopped in no uncertain terms!
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 30, 2007. Read the original PDF.