And if you think “a job” is all it takes to not be poor, then you are just completely out of touch with reality.
This looting is not done by "the poor" and they are not stealing "to fill their hungry children's mouths". They are looting because it is free season, they'll either use or sell off whatever loot they get and spend the returns on whatever they fancy.
What makes you think that poor people does not have jobs? Search the term "the working poor".
Better yet, check out "working homeless" (take [1] for example). That things like this happen in the richest, most powerful country in history is beyond belief.
[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/09/30/652572292/working-while-homel...
Does that mean 'consistently lowering over the last 10-20 years and now significantly lower than it was 20 years ago?' Because that's a pretty odd definition.
Odder still - while CA homicide rates have increased in 2020-2021, they have done so by a percentage LOWER than the national average. So basically, CA is safer and has lower homicide rates than the national average and your suggestion is to change leadership to be more like the rest of the country?
"Fun" facts: California was the epicenter of the 20th-century American eugenics movement[0] whose ideas became very famous around 1940, was the place that invented single-family zoning[1] (in Berkeley in 1916) immediately after banning land ownership by non-whites in 1913[2], that once passed a state referendum to explicitly nullify a state-level fair-housing act[3] passed a year prior, that passed the first modern firearms-restriction act on explicitly racial grounds[4], and that pioneered regressive segregation-with-extra-steps property tax laws[5]. It is an extremely racially-segregated place, to this day[6], and always has been despite our leaders' constant pandering to the contrary. There are so many things to love about California, but this isn't one of them and I'd urge you to reconsider what you know about it :/
[0] https://www.alternet.org/2020/12/josef-mengele/
[1] https://globalurban.org/Berkeley_Zoning_Origins.pdf
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Alien_Land_Law_of_1...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_California_Proposition_14
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13