By Greg Vega Santa Monica
SMPD needs the homeless (“To protect and serve the homeless,” Feb. 3, page 1). Vagrants keep the call volume for the police high, thus the police can justify the huge budget they get from the city each year. If the call volume for the police dropped over 50 percent, do you really think they would get the money from the city they ask for?
That would be a disaster for the police department. Just think of all the overtime the cops would loose out on.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 6, 2007. Read the original PDF.