If this continues it will turn into South Africa where only the wealthy get justice (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_security_industry_in...).

I’m totally fine with police making as much as a software developer as long as they are competent and reasonably non-corrupt. Here is their starting wages, starting 70k without a college degree: https://www.joinlapd.com/salary should probably be a bit more if you want them to be able to afford houses in LA though.