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I was on my way home from work and there were a lot of police, sheriff, fire and paramedics heading into Santa Cruz. I'd left my phone at home, so I had no idea what was going on. I was on a van pool, so I fell asleep. When I got back to my truck I turned my radio on but didn't hear enough traffic to make sense of it.

Sad that these two officers were killed by this scum. Knowing that they both had families that will have to live with this forever makes me thankful for my own family. I'm sure I'll hear more about this as time goes on.

I lived in Santa Cruz for several years back in the late 1990's, and back then it was a pretty quiet town, but did have some issues with tolerance, violence, drugs and general troublemakers. It's really too bad that the city council has let things deteriorate so far. The past few weeks have been quite violent. This shooting, a rape at UCSC, another shooting on the west side, constant heroin and drug issues, violence, hatred. I'm really saddened by this one, but I hope it wakes up the city council, or at least gets the house cleaned out and more responsible people in charge.
 

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Nice to see today that surrounding agencies are covering most of the Santa Cruz PD calls. I work at the University, and the UCPD guys are taking a number of the local SCPD calls. Sheriffs office is covering a lot also.

Hear through the grapevine that one of the Santa Cruz fire trucks had 4 rounds into the side of it from yesterday.

Been a few rough weeks here, hopefully things will settle down.
 
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I don't listen to Santa Cruz county that much, but listen to Santa Cruz CHP all the time I caught one of the units relaying info to dispatch about the shooting and every channel in Santa Cruz county was in chaos.
 

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A few photos from the funeral procession this morning as they left Santa Cruz on their way to the HP Pavilion in San Jose. Agencies from all over the state, including federals. A sad thing to watch, but nice to see a good turn out. Too bad it takes a tragedy like this to get people to show their appreciation.
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