I think you should be careful lumping all of California together. The way it works out here is there is San Francisco & LA then there is everything else.
Here in Kern County where I am this gal probably would've left the store in a body bag, and it wouldn't have been from the police showing up. Smaller cities like mine are actually profiting from the BS in bigger cities, people are moving out of the shitholes in California and into smaller cities with less crime and much more desirable housing costs.
That being said I've got one foot out the door myself.
