It will get worse before it will get better.
There's a shit ton of money to be made in private security skullcracking. I mean ruthless and illegal and at scale. Maybe not in San Bernardino but all those people who paid multimillions for their LA/San Fran/etc properties... and now the wives and daughters can't even walk outside. The civilized residents will be good people and look the other way while what has to happen happens. They want their hands clean and they want the problem solved.
You could probably even do it in San Bernardino if you had major developer level capital. Market it as a Security Guaranteed Community and rebuild the whole place.
It's not nice but neither is having yoir daughter get raped by crackheads.
If the government was a restaurant, you wouldn't ever eat there again. If a bank you'd bank elsewhere. A car, you wouldn't trust it.to get you there. Endlessly fucking you over. There comes a.point when you're justified and even compelled to seek other solutions.