FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2011
Volume 10 Issue 280
Santa Monica Daily Press DANGEROUS DEED SEE PAGE 15
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Police: Most arrests on out-of-towners BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITYWIDE Most criminals caught in Santa
IN MEMORY OF JOBS
Daniel Archuleta daniela@smdp.com An impromptu tribute sprung up outside of the Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade on Thursday in honor of the company's late cofounder, Steve Jobs. A number of messages were posted on the window of the popular store. See related story on page 5.
Monica hail from outside of city borders, according to statistics released by the police department. Santa Monica police recently created a graph depicting the total number of arrests by year from Jan. 1, 2006 to April 28, 2011, broken down by origin of the alleged criminals. Miscreants fall into one of four categories: from Santa Monica, outside the city, transient or refuse to state. The data are extremely consistent. Santa Monica residents tend to comprise 20 percent of total arrests, with a high of 21 percent in 2008 and a low of 19 percent in 2007, 2010 and thus far in 2011. Transients — defined as anyone without an address — vacillated between 34 percent of arrests in 2009 and 43 percent in 2006, which was the only year that police arrested more transients than out-of-towners. The numbers bear out the general impression that Santa Monica’s inviting cliSEE CRIME PAGE 9
Money for veteran housing gets OK BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
WEST LOS ANGELES President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Wednesday that would release millions of dollars to retrofit and renovate several buildings on the West Los Angeles Veterans Administration campus. The law, called the Veterans Health Care Facilities Capital Improvement Act, is a $1.2 billion measure spread out over the next four years for construction and leasing of VA medical facilities. It also extends the timeline on a number
of programs targeted to help homeless veterans, including one to reintegrate veterans into society and one to rehabilitate “seriously mentally ill and homeless” veterans. The legislation frees up $35.5 million for seismic improvements at the West Los Angeles VA medical campus as well as the renovation of Building 209 into housing facilities for homeless veterans. “Our veterans have made tremendous sacrifices for our country, and they deserve access to the best treatment available,” said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Santa Monica). Waxman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (DCalif.), County Supervisor Zev Yarovslavsky and Sen. Barbara Boxer worked to get the
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bill through the House and the Senate. Feinstein welcomed the bill after it made it through a critical vote at the Senate level. “At long last, this renovation can begin,” Feinstein said in a press release. “One out of every 10 veterans without a roof over their head lives in Los Angeles, so there is a critical need for more housing at the West L.A. VA.” The battle for the funds took five years to accomplish, the release stated. It’s been longer than that, said David Sapp, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, when the measure first
NEW YORK Concerns over Wall Street practices and economic inequality that have led to sit-ins and rallies in New York and elsewhere reverberated up to the White House on Thursday, with President Barack Obama saying the protesters are expressing the frus-
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