Sounds like I need to read up on this earlier version of “anarcho-tyranny” that paleoconservatives started talking about a couple of decades or so ago. Especially in a disarmed society (which California sort of is, especially in terms of legal carry outside of one’s home or business), the government’s deployment of law enforcement can be used as a powerful coercive tool.

I heard this has happened in D.C. and it’s well established in the U.K., where Tony Blair explicitly said he wanted to wipe out “rural culture” and withdrew most of the police from those regions plus some other politically disfavored ones. With self-defense judicially nullified and gun ownership steadily oppressed the results have been ugly. Thank goodness our policing is done at the local, county and state level for the most part.