California is exemplary ‘liberal’ (means dominated by Lefts) state. The Left ideology and policy could be formally defined as priority of care over defense, staunch support of governmental monopoly   on legitimate violence and more (see definition of Left here in Introduction to the book “How the Import of Modern Western Institutions Suppresses Economic Growth: 1990-ties East-West and West-East Transition”).

Successes in promotion the above mentioned Monopoly are naturally cause Governmental failure to defend citizens (see Utoya island massacre case; see more responses  here).

Police officer running away the armed criminal could become new reality in the Los Angeles. So the citizens believing in the ‘Monopoly on legitimate violence’ take the risk to open one more Pandora’s Box.