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SMPD helping neighborhoods host block parties for National Night Out

On Oct. 5 the Santa Monica Police Department is seeking to revive all the community camaraderie of old-school block parties and will be helping neighbors close their streets to cars in clusters across the City. The parties are coordinated as part of National Night Out, an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community...

The Simple Solution

I’m guessing that at some point in of our lives, particularly in those years dedicated to higher education, we have all heard the idea that the smartest people are the ones who can take complicated topics and distill them down into something bite-sized and manageable. But the problem is that, particularly when you are dealing with human...

The SMPD: Enacting Common Sense Reform Since 1896

By: Sergeant Erika Aklufi Throughout the turbulence and social upheaval of the past 18 months, a scant few members of our community have had the opportunity to hear what Police Reform means to the officers who serve them. The din of the national narrative about law enforcement has effectively drowned out our community’s voices. What they...

Why We Released the Policy Platform

The upheaval of the past year was enough to test the most resilient and grounded among us. Santa Monica police officers were not immune to the stress of the pandemic coupled with a social reckoning of our profession. Initially, we, the sworn officers of the SMPD, felt unfairly lumped into the national indictment of unprofessional police officers...

Police Officers Association takes issue with exclusion from commission

onica’s first civilian police oversight body is still accepting applications from community members who wish to promote the best practices in community-oriented policing, but local police officers are taking issue with their exclusion from the newfound commission. A 15-member Public Safety Reform Advisory Committee originally suggested that...

SMPD looking to hire officers with unique skills

Santa Monica Police Department Sergeant Tina Greer remembers ringing up customers in the Fred Segal shop she worked at during the late 1990s and spotting undercover officers enter the store. “I just thought it was the coolest thing ever, and they would tell me stories and all of the search warrants they wrote,†Greer said in a recent...