gotta say that a lot of dead police would contradict you on that.
I think most here know that if SHTF in Any time-line, you stop the threat as fast as you can.
EL
They would if there were a lot of dead police. but there are not. In a nation with over a third of a billion people, dead police officers are statistically rare. No amount of embellishing or exaggerating on the part of yourself nor anyone else will make that not so, and to an obvious degree.
Police do not need the paramilitary equipment they have now, and certainly given the ever increasing display of incompetence they put forth the public has a vested interest in not buying them any more.
And here I thought most cops get killed in car wrecks and eating their own weapons. A purposeful attack almost never happen, unless the cop is out running someone else woman.