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# SMPD commended for arresting Pico criminals
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/smpd-commended-for-arresting-pico-criminals-editor/
- Published: 2004-07-19T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:44:47.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Pico, #archive-import

*By Joan Ling Executive director, Community Corp. of Santa Monica*

We would like to commend Santa Monica Police Chief James T. Butts Jr. and the police department for their recent arrests in the Pico neighborhood (SMDP, July 15, page 1). Working together with neighbors and property owners, the police department is making the neighborhood safer. We are pleased to be a part of their team in crime fighting by providing surveillance tapes and private investigative reports. It fits into the chief’s vision of community policing through cooperative and responsible private citizens.

Now let’s see whether the DA’s office will come through on their end. The police department certainly did.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on July 19, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/071904.pdf?ref=smdp.com)