If you go off of crime statistics, Santa Cruz has a higher crime rate than Salinas, and Salinas had a higher murder rate than San Jose and San Francisco combined 2 years ago. Those crime "statistics" don't mean a damn thing, especially when things don't get reported.
Also, if you google images for Watsonville, The first 2 categories are "831" and "Gangs." It's a list of hundreds of mugshots. I haven't seen that come up for any other town, especially of Watsonville's size. It's the 3rd thing that comes up for Salinas and Salinas is quite a bit worse than Watsonville for gang violence. Y'all can make your little jokes but you obviously have no idea.