I got two here in central Indiana with my .22 hornet this winter, one was standing not 10 feet from my patio door in the middle of the day, where I let my dogs out.
Put a bounty on them and the problem will be solved, at least it works wherever it has been tried so far.
Exactly, coyotes are smart and they obviously haven’t been shot at often enough in CA. They have no fear of humans.