When business owners and taxpayers start to believe that they are getting neither return nor protection from the police getting very generous retirements and pensions, things will change. Government unions are a nemesis.
Citizens need the right to have direct control via referendum over the unelected bureaucrats who screw them. As others have said she never should have broadcast such policy, just as schools should not advertise themselves as no defense zones.
When areas lose their WASP culture (in this case, property rights), then it is all over. Years ago Somalia had no functioning government; when you landed at the airport there was nobody to even stamp your passport.