A minor blue flu.
If the criminals keep it up, the flu will get worse.
Police officers don’t have to go off duty to protect themselves, they just have to wear civilian clothes and not drive police cars.
Before the two NYPD policemen were murdered in their police car, the purpose of making the police visible in bad neighborhoods was to deter crime. However, conditions have changed completely after the shooting, since it was police visibility that actually attracted a murderer to kill the policemen.
So, now the NYPD’s crime-fighting tactics must also change completely. Officers must now go undercover. But will they do that?
In the current atmosphere of anti-police protests, the spectacle of uniformed officers careening around cities in big flashy police cars is a sign of madness.