“California departments will get the bottom of the barrel”.
Not exactly. If this passes it will be to purge all good officers and deputies state wide and replace them with political ones. Then the LEO’s will become a standing army of Left. California will become Venezuela on steroids. No middle class, the wealthy and connected, and the poor.
True. But that standing Army will be made up of conscripts, for the most part. There won’t be enough money to hire or keep anyone, worthwhile, as the entire state devolves into violence and chaos. They’ll have the bodies to do their bidding, but they aren’t going to be the sharpest knives in the drawer. Just mindless, idiots filling a uniform, doing what they are told for a few scraps. Sure, the higher ranking folks might be a “little” sharper, but not by much.
Think about what it will do to the housing market, for one. People will just walk away from their homes as their neighborhoods will become unlivable. It’ll be a caravan of refugees trying, and I emphasize trying, to get to the surrounding states. That is, if they can make it without being robbed. And those homes will then be filled with more and more illegals, turning into, literally, a failed state.
As for the wealthy and poor divide. IMHO, that will go on for a while. But, eventually all industry will leave, except for the ports. Those places will be on lockdown.