California is very litigious. I can only imagine the lawsuits if they drop slime from a helicopter, don’t clean it up adequately, and some innocent older lady slips and cracks her head the next morning.

As far as your example of a gang rape, if there’s a shooting gallery, you’d probably end up with a dead or wounded officer, maybe a dead person in the crowd, a lot of anger in the community, and the gang rape would probably still happen.

BTW- your armored car article is about Berkeley, not Oakland. The former isn’t exactly a hotbed of criminality, and I fully agree with them voting down a porkbarrel purchase like an armored car.