There were reportedly no major incidents of violence in downtown Santa Cruz on New Year’s Eve. Law enforcement officers there responded to 160 calls between 5 p-m that night and 5 a-m new year’s day morning. 12 people were arrested (mostly for public intoxication), and 11 triple fine citations (mostly for open containers) were issued. In 2015, approximately 35-hundred people celebrated New Year’s Eve in Santa Cruz, and this time only about 2-thousand people did.
