I will mention this one more time here. I don’t know what may or may not be coming. I will say my husband works in a business that supplies certain things to police departments. They have been busy for months, lots of overtime. The police depts seem to have a non ending budget. This is unusal because it has never been that way before.
The people that work there are thinking WTF?
That could go either way, depending on the department. Big City Departments, I don't know, smaller towns and rural Sheriff's departments might be stocking up for a different reason. The politics vary.
A lot would depend on the type of equipment and supplies, but at some point I would think that they anticipate civil unrest.