Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
A chronicle by the Santa Monica Coalition of the truth about life on our streets
Santa Monica's City Council thinks the city is just fine. One councilmember called the homeless residents our neighbors, their wants and desires equivalent to those of people who pay rent and pay taxes. The 'freedom' of some, most of whom suffer from drug addiction and mental illness, to live in filth, disease and to commit crimes with impunity, is valued over the ability of the rest of society to live healthy lives in law and order.
Watch the videos shot and distributed by the Santa Monica Coalition, a different one each day, to see what is actually happening in a city that is no longer a magnet for tourists and shoppers.
The Santa Monica Coalition is a movement comprised of Santa Monica residents, business owners, and locals that addresses the humanitarian crisis, public safety concerns, the rising crime, and the current lack of responsiveness from the City of Santa Monica.
July 2 2024 Santa Monica Coalition Mini Documentary
One's chance of becoming a victim of crime in Santa Monica is currently one in 19, and growing. Santa Monica's leaders are not listening to its Police Chief who wants to incentivize and hire more sworn officers. Residents and businesses want more police presence. Families are fed up with assaults and junkies in their own car ports and ground floor apartment lobbies. Business owners and employees observe the daily street dwellers' psychotic episodes on the Promenade, Wilshire and throughout Downtown, suffer economic losses from daily walk-in theft, open drug dealing, drug use and the City's tolerance of it. Santa Monica's Police remain underfunded and tourists have also become victims. The City has a rogue City Manager whose own emails show he has schemed with the LA County Department of Public Health and the Venice Family Clinic to tolerate distribution of glass pipes, needles and other drug paraphernalia inside our parks, against the will of the people. Should the current attacks on innocents by drug addicts come as any surprise?
Reader Comments(4)
jean writes:
Santa Monica had issues before and did nothing. Are we forgetting that food distribution use to happen on the promenade and the upper park? No one complained then and that was a huge issue for the businesses. Seems like now that it is bothering those outside of the promenade plus the promenade is losing money everyone cares. The issue should have been handled years ago.
05/20/2024, 11:19 am
Jack writes:
To the citizens of Venice & Santa Monica, you get the environment you voted for. Want better ? Then vote your representatives out !
04/11/2024, 3:01 pm
donthaveone writes:
The promenade should be filled with people shopping and eating but it's a ghost town! So sad how they have ruined our Santa Monica!
12/22/2023, 8:58 am
SurfLawyer writes:
I've been reading the Observer for years. I've come to like these daily crime videos. The other items I can see in many sites, but this is great.
11/20/2023, 3:37 pm