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# What’s all the racket about?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/whats-all-the-racket-about-20070227/
- Published: 2007-02-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:09:28.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

Wailing sirens during the wee-hours of the night. Thumping rotor blades of police copters swooping over the city. Loud squad car radios blaring out of cruiser windows. All sounds of the big city — or in the case of Santa Monica a little big city. We all know that living safe is important, but so is maintaining the quality of life in our hamlet by the bay. What do you think?

This week’s Q-Line question asks: Should these sounds be considered comforting, albeit inconvenient, parts of keeping the peace or just pariahs to the ear?

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your answers in next weekend’s edition of the Daily Press. Please limit responses to a minute or less.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 27, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022707.pdf?ref=smdp.com)