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College town, Santa Cruz, California. Lot of drugs, a lot of marijuana but also a lot of heroin and crystal meth -- something for every budget. Population 60,000, usually 2-4 murders a year, mostly about drugs or under the influence of drugs or by people whose brains have been so burned out by drug use that they have a hard time activing rationally even when sober. We have a moderately large and transient homeless population, and at least once a year one of them takes a dislike to another (or a liking to something the other has) and the cops find a body down by the river a few days later.
Mind you, you can walk all around this town and this action will be invisible to you unless you're looking for it. There's very little in the way of armed robbery or burglary, maybe 1-2 reported rapes a year except every five years or so some guy goes on a peeping tom/rape spree. Something about this town brings out the looney in everyone . The last serial rapist the cops caught was a well-respected property owner who just happened to be growing several thousand pot plants inside a mansion he owned, which was of course searched after he was brought up on charges. Talk about having trouble keeping a low profile....
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