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Yesterday, we became aware of a post by the mayor of Santa Monica, Lennon, Negrette.

I have talked a lot about Santa Monica over time.

It's been a barometer of how life in the Los Angeles area has just gotten almost intolerable,

especially in the last five years, but I would go back about 10 years where we started noticing

the signs of the decay. And it's powered more than anything else by the incredible number

of homeless people, just the frightening,

scary drug addicts and mental patients running around the crime.

Now we know how much crime there is with all the neighborhood apps, so we don't have to rely

on the Pete police every six months to give us their, their phony numbers.

Everybody, I know, is scared.

Everybody I know is constantly talking about the crime.

And I live very close to Santa Monica.

And every fun thing we used to do was in Santa Monica and the Palisades.

Palisades has been allowed to burn.

Santa Monica is in a state of decay.

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