Aside from the title of this post, there is little to suggest vigilantism from Santa Cruz Neighbors. As far as i can tell, they don't really have the mettle to handle all these problems they feel they have with the riff-raff on their own. Given what i've seen of the meeting announcements, the meetings are populated at least as much by police and city bureaucrats as they are by conservative Santa Cruz homeowners. In fact, the meetings are generally in the Police Community Room.

Santa Cruz Neighbors should be watched and taken account of, but i would hesitate to label them "vigilantes" at this point. My impression is that they are primarily well-off local home-owners with overdeveloped senses of entitlement and rarefied notions of "neighborliness". They have a long way to go before they become the Citizens' Protective Associations of yore, which assaulted and murdered unionists in addition to establishing such inocuous "public service" institituions as volunteer fire departments.

If there are any SC Neighbors out there (and i imagine there are), i'd love to hear your feedback, regardless of the "Drug War" red herring.