It's a blue city in one of the bluest states in the country, if that's what you're asking. The social services are about as good as you're gonna find in the US. The city shares a border with a slightly smaller urban area in one of the lower service red states (they haven't even legalized weed yet, not that that's a service). That side of the river is not noticeably higher or lower in crime.

This rampant petty property crime problem seems to follow specific public policy, not any other variable.

Much of this is due to the design of the region: the greater Los Angeles area is a sea of concrete in a desert, that extends for 100 miles in every direction. It's impossible to run as a region efficiently and requires a massive amount of effort to provide services for.

The weather's nice though :)

>unless you leave your $1k road bike unlocked within view of the street for a long time it's probably not gonna grow legs

In other words, you live and work in the wealthy parts of the city.