Uh-huh.
What is happening in California is also something which was predictable: Mexicans being inserted into positions of power within the police.
This is the inevitable result of Affirmative Action for the descendants of Spanish Conquistadors...and Aztec cannibals.
Some people might find that mean to say, but...truth hurts.
I could personalize this by listing the names of Police Chiefs and other "officials" all over California. But that would be counterproductive until one of them gets nailed for corruption. Which they will, because that's the "rich" culture they come from. And it endures, no matter how long they stay here...because they live within their own ethnic space, interacting only when necessary.
These are police who see no evil, hear no evil. All around them, illegal aliens go about their daily business of occupation and takeover undisturbed. But they do nothing: the illegals are their people, and will not be arrested. Or deported, because you don't deport your cousin.
So the police in California are now the criminals themselves. I guarantee you that all of them have relatives who are Mexican Mafia: family cultures are like that, and virtually all Mexican families are involved in the business of smuggling something or supporting it.
And so the assumption that our police forces are Untouchable and Not Corrupt like Mexico is becoming not true....because Mexicans are coming to dominate those forces, by the action of federal law.
Think I'm kidding? Check out the recruiting websites for the California Highway Patrol or any of the CA city police forces. They talk about nothing but "diversity".
Salinas is now a war zone and everyone admits it. How did it get that way? Simple - a corrupt and violent subculture moved in and became dominant because no one would do anything and if they did, protests & riots & lawsuits were staged to stop them.
California is done. The moron foreigner we elected Governor just signed a law restricting ammunition sales at the insistence of the Mexican government (really), and the effect of that will be this: the real citizens won't be allowed to fight back. And the cops won't either, because they're the bad guys relatives.
Just like Mexico.
The crime-free Salinas of yore is obviously history. But, on the brighter side, the violence appears to have flattened out. Here are the numbers from City Data:
Crime in Salinas by Year
| Type | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Murders | 12 | 18 | 15 | 20 | 19 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| per 100,000 | 9.7 | 14.2 | 9.7 | 12.8 | 12.6 | 11.4 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 9.6 |
| Rapes | 60 | 62 | 56 | 59 | 57 | 69 | 43 | 45 | 51 |
| per 100,000 | 48.7 | 49.1 | 36.4 | 37.7 | 37.9 | 46.1 | 28.8 | 30.5 | 35.1 |
| Robberies | 346 | 448 | 399 | 367 | 399 | 452 | 335 | 383 | 378 |
| per 100,000 | 280.8 | 354.7 | 259.3 | 234.3 | 265.5 | 302.3 | 224.6 | 259.2 | 260.2 |
| Assaults | 737 | 734 | 799 | 692 | 725 | 678 | 645 | 683 | 711 |
| per 100,000 | 598.0 | 581.1 | 519.3 | 441.9 | 482.4 | 453.4 | 432.4 | 462.3 | 489.5 |
| Burglaries | 729 | 808 | 843 | 757 | 837 | 918 | 935 | 907 | 1,205 |
| per 100,000 | 591.5 | 639.7 | 547.9 | 483.4 | 556.9 | 613.9 | 626.8 | 613.9 | 829.6 |
| Thefts | 3,764 | 3,760 | 4,102 | 4,013 | 5,163 | 4,549 | 4,339 | 3,718 | 3,332 |
| per 100,000 | 3054.3 | 2976.7 | 2665.9 | 2562.4 | 3435.0 | 3041.9 | 2908.8 | 2516.4 | 2294.0 |
| Auto thefts | 650 | 627 | 765 | 926 | 1,415 | 1,297 | 1,504 | 1,398 | 2,341 |
| per 100,000 | 527.4 | 496.4 | 497.2 | 591.3 | 941.4 | 867.3 | 1008.3 | 946.2 | 1611.7 |
| Arson | 31 | 63 | 53 | 58 | 51 | 37 | 35 | 29 | 37 |
| per 100,000 | 25.2 | 49.9 | 34.4 | 37.0 | 33.9 | 24.7 | 23.5 | 19.6 | 25.5 |
| City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 320.9) | 468.0 | 493.9 | 415.0 | 398.0 | 483.4 | 475.0 | 427.2 | 423.4 | 502.1 |