Scooters are like $150 a piece. These six-figure cars. Doubt that gets ignored.

Nah, breaking a Waymo is property crime against a large corp, and that makes them pay attention; they fall asleep when it's just the general population and small business, but there's backing and funding at stake when capital is attacked. Police departments over the last decade or so of protest have demonstrated willingness to defend Apple stores, Louis Vuitton, etc. They mostly don't succeed at stopping burglaries-in-progress but they do tend to go through camera footage and pick up people after the fact in those incidents.

>I've seen active break-ins and robberies in LA, and called the police only to have nothing being done in those situations.

This is not an LA phenomenon.