If fat ass city union cops are given the order to stop a riot, confiscate citizen armaments or go door-to-door and ask for a cup of sugar, they will hop in their squads, drive home and protect their families, just like they did in LA back in 1992. Hell, when a bunch of smelly hippies marched on the Sanford, Florida, police station a few months back, the cops wimpered like whipped dogs and shut the station down.
I prefer not to engage in fantasies about super-hero Rambo cops crushing 100 million armed Americans. They do not exist.
If it involved increasing revenue then YES they would.
In my area, we don't have very many “fat assed” cops out and about in public.
If the current “rank and file” ever decided to strike or go rogue, they would instantly face ten times their numbers of highly qualified military veterans, who our Sheriff could instantly tap to be volunteer deputies, leading an extensive militia of competent citizens as instant force multipliers.
There are many reasons I have always refused to live in a big city or a blue state...