incredible how the place has gotten harder in spite of all the best efforts to shine love and share harmony. i lived in Santa Cruz on and off ( sans domicile) from '83-'87 and was constantly harrased by the police for NOTHING. from laying on a bench waiting for a freind to come out from a store to placing a shirt on a water pipe at the top of the mall while changing shirts. to streching out by hanging from an 8 inch in diameter tree branch, while waiting in bhakti tom's pickup while he cleaned up the common ground to enjoying a cookout on seabright beach their bizzare inhuman thought process targeted me and dozens of others who were not encumbered by home ownership, mortgages, bills etc.,etc.BUT if the taxpayers of Santa Cruz are willing to cough up for all that police presence making enjoying downtown nearly impossible for anyone wihtout a beefy credit line what are you gonne do beside rallies and protests , which for as long as i've known santa Cruz have availed zero in the way of softening the mindset toward the poor? AsGorgeous as that place is,it was too weird to have such an artificial , greedy , materialistic society superimposed over all the beauty. I moved and in a funny ironic twist. i now OWN my own home :) you're all welcome by the way ...