To tell the truth, if the police in my little town decided to stop doing their jobs it wouldn't make me feel very warm and fuzzy about them. (Doubly so if my household was completely disarmed.) New Yorkers undoubtedly wish that they could wake up and find that this fight had gone away.
NYC needs to STFD and STFU. They voted for it.
What’s the chances that your town will have a communist mayor?