Textbook case of the perfect application for Chapter 9 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. If the CA legislature allows it, and with all the bailing they have had to do (and yet need to do) with the state budget, they’ll allow it.
The Thin Blue Line Police Unions know how to rape the taxpayers nationwide. Ask any department how many officers go off to retire on tax free medical disability retirements? These tax payer funded pension make police millionaires especially in California where they can get 90% of their $200,000 salaries tax free for the rest of their life.