[addicted]

Texas also has/had much more COVID than CA.

And they also probably have different policing styles.

[chaoskanzlerin]

CA had 0.06 cases per capita [since Jan 1 2021], TX is at 0.07. "LEO density" doesn't offset this enough either, so there has to be some reporting error.

[dragonwriter]

Or behavioral (possibly driven by departmental policy) differences in LEO community between states. Or...lots of other things.