Santa Monica's police activities league, was a pedo playground, and the city learned that one of their employees was guilty, and covered it up. For decades.

The city out of court settlement now brings the total payout to nearly $230 million to 229 alleged victims over the past three years.

The pedo was a city employee dressed like a police officer and would recruit kids from the police department program.

“He had a badge. He had handcuffs,” recalls a victim  “I remember even seeing a pistol on the seat of his car.”

“Eric Uller would pick up kids after basketball games or baseball games and he would take them to go get food,” said Claypool. “The last child in the car, he would pull into an alley and molest that child. That was one of his MOs. He did this for over a decade. The city should never have allowed Uller to be picking up kids. He told many of the victims that if you want to participate in a sport, that you have to get a physical. A lot of these kids didn’t know what a physical was.”

Victims said Uller would drive then them to a medical office operated by his family.

“He would make them undress and he sodomized many of these kids in his dad’s medical office,” said Claypool.

Claypool claims city officials were made aware of the abuse as early as the 1990s, but nothing was done until 2018 when Uller was arrested and charged with numerous molestation counts.

“We want to know why the city never investigated when one of my clients looked at a police officer in the face and said, ‘Why are you letting Eric Uller do bad things to kids?’”

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/santa-monica-pays-122-million-to-victims-of-city-employee-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-children/ 

https://smdp.com/2023/04/26/city-settles-all-uller-abuse-claims-for-a-total-of-229-8-million/

And that's the it is, as Walter Cronkite said at the end of the nightly news.