Or maybe it’s the the usual case of simply paying unionized people in government, like cops, water and power, fire fighters, city council members, mayors, et al, way to much and the same reason why it’s driving counties, cities and states straight into the poor house and why they have to keep raising their effing taxes.
New York City has some of the highest paid police in the United States. I think California may be higher. California corrections officers have a very sweet deal.
One of the best LE jobs in California, IMHO, is to be assigned to the California Highway patrol in a rural county in the mountains, away from the cities...
The pay and pensions are the same.