It turns out that it was not such a great strategy to drive officers off the job by embracing anti-police rhetoric amid a surge in homicides. California’s soft-on-crime attitude has real effects, and those effects are compounded when Democratic city leaders refuse to stand behind their police. After all, those officers can often go take jobs in pleasant places such as Montana or Idaho, where the risks are lower, the pay is comparable, and there’s no need to deal with toxic California politicians.
