I could be wrong, of course. It may time for the ammo box, not the ballot box. But both require the support of a committed minority of your fellow citizens. And certainly minions.gov will listen to the ballot box more readily if the ammo box is near to hand.

Because the state and local bureaucrats aren’t getting their cut of the racket.

I’ve seen this sort of problem before and I’ve discussed it with officers working in such places. Basically there are a bunch of perverse incentives at work.
-the officers who make the most arrests and write the most tickets are usually evaluated as having the highest performance. They also tend to be the most ambitious and most enterprising.
-the best performing officers usually have an easier time working in the areas they want. The will take the initiative to get the jobs they want and their high on-job performance makes them more desirable as hires.
-even though many of these high-performing officers appear to enjoy nothing more than chasing down criminals, they almost universally opt to work in the wealthy and low-crime areas. Much less stress, much more opportunities for advancement, much cooler toys to play with, less risk of being stabbed by a crackhead. You get the idea.
-leaving the relative less affluent and high crime areas with the officers who can’t manage to get themselves hired or transferred to a better area.
-while all of the safe areas are awash with ambitious young stormtroopers who grill people over the pettiest things.

I can’t think of any way to remedy this problem. The best people, the best living areas and the money all chase one another. The best solution I can think of is to continually reduce property tax millage as real estate values go up so that you don’t end up overrun with police who have nothing better to do than buy cool military toys and bust up the weekly poker game.