They do when they are in a city where the DA will arrest those who defend themselves while letting the punks go free, and the police chief is a CA transplant.
And it may about to get even worse with the Democrat Marxists about to go full Venezuela by adding 4 new Supreme Court justices to fully politicize the legal system: https://theintercept.com/2021/04/14/house-and-senate-democrats-plan-bill-to-add-four-justices-to-supreme-court/