It may be a small percentage, but it's costing the city $$$s - outside of the police, loss of productivity, etc. for those sitting on the freeways in their cars, I heard on the radio that LA gets $28/day per student. If the students aren't in class, the city doesn't get the money. Yesterday or Monday cost them something like $1M. I also read that the Mayor was telling the officers to hand out truancy tickets. Haven't heard any more about that.
Oh, its been millions and millions of dollars...most of the counties have been on full deployment with their officers, 12 on, 12 off since last week, and there will be no FEMA reimbursement like in Natural Disasters. Plus a lot of students missed state mandated testing...