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May 3, 2022 - Santa Monica Police Chief Ramon Batista met members of the public at an event sponsored by the Santa Monica Protective Association on Sunday and Monday evenings. The event, held at a private home north of Montana Avenue, was well attended both evenings, with 60-70 people in the large backyard beside a swimming pool. The SMPA is a non-profit started in 1981 that collects dues from residents north of Montana in order to hire armed private security patrols. Most attendees were...
5.2.22: The Third Street Promenade was evacuated Monday afternoon, because a construction crew ruptured a gas main. Santa Monica Blvd. between second and fourth street, was evacuated. News helicopters are circling over head. Santa Monica Fire engine companies and Southern California Gas Company crews were working on the problem as of 525 PM PST. The ruptured line was said to be a high-pressure line 2 inches in diameter. The gas leak occurred on the promenade, Santa Monica‘s biggest tourist...
Dear Councilwoman Himmelrich, I just received your "Standing Firm For Santa Monica" flyer, which I understand is yours alone. I don't have a financial dog in this fight, as the condo I own doesn't approach 8 million dollars. My problem is what you want to do with the money. It all sounds so great! Who wouldn't want better schools and help for the homeless? Our Santa Monica schools are excellent, but if you want to give them more money, I'm fine with that. Although I am childless, as a...
4.29.22: A man with a pipe broke a window in the alley between Lincoln and 7th Street at Arizona and then assaulted a resident who tried to stop him from breaking additional windows. Arthur Jeon, Santa Monica resident, was walking home from his gym on the Promenade when he witnessed the original vandalism. He wrote in an email addressed to Downtown Santa Monica Inc, "I saw a man throw a two-foot heavy pipe and break a window in a building on the alley between Lincoln and 7th at Arizona, a block...
Courts & Rulings Court hears case over deputy who didn't read Miranda rights You have the right to remain silent. Everyone knows police aren't supposed to question suspects without reading them their Miranda rights. But what happens when law enforcement officers don't first read suspects their rights? The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether a sheriff's deputy can be sued for money damages for violating the rights of a hospital employee who was accused of sexually assaulting a...