SANTA MONICA, Calif.—Some Santa Monica residents said they fear their neighborhoods are becoming more prone to crime amid a trend of attacks on United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers earlier this week and a new study that identified their city among a list of the least safe cities in the nation.
“I’ve seen a huge shift in the crime [and] in the way that the city is being led, and the way that we are responding to this crisis in Santa Monica,” 20-year resident and teacher Chie Lunn told The Epoch Times.
According to Lunn, her purse was stolen twice in one week in the city.