SMRR and Its Role in Civilian Review of Police Work

Aside from the fact it is answerable to an elected City Council, there is one excellent reason why the Santa Monica Police Department does not need a watchdog oversight board: The council majority, aligned with Santa Monicans for Renters Rights, can use its numerical superiority to make our Police Department answerable to a civilian review board composed of a 100% SMRR super-majority.

One need only to look at the city’s past 15 years to see the SMRR Marxists and radical multiculturalists at work trying to strip this city of the mainstream American values of personal responsibility and the right of the majority to protection of their economic interests and their own personal safety. They want to replace those values with their own brand of self-righteousness. The redistribution of wealth through rent control was one step. Handing out condoms, sex surveys, non-judgmental views about teen-age promiscuity and the destruction of our children’s ability to think critically is another step.

The politicization of our Police Department and making our chief the hostage of a small group of elitists, disenfranchised from mainstream thought, is the critical “next step.”

These SMRR elites--fueled by the radical politics of the left, which do not tolerate people reaching the “wrong conclusion” in the democratic process--have nothing less in mind than dictating how people are to spend their money, raise their children and conduct their entire lives. To do this, they must seize absolute control of our public social institutions.

In this regard, it is evident that Chief James T. Butts and his Police Department have ascended to the top of the SMRR “most-wanted list.”

KIP DELLINGER

Santa Monica