Tanks, A-10s and rifle companies are too noisy to keep a secret. Chocolate bars on CNN won’t fool them, but CNN will surely be part of their response. They’ll have to be more subtle to keep it a law enforcement matter and not a military one. So, the police will be given new powers to function more like the Gestapo instead of your local constabulary. They would become the domestic arm of the military. They’re almost there now with tactical gear and kangaroo courts.
This is where I think it would go.
In AZ, cops are being given free reign to gun down anyone they like, especially anyone mentally ill or deaf who does not understand police orders. I know that there are still good PD, retired Marines who went into LE, good CHPs, etc., but after Boston and several other incidents, I don’t believe that all that many LEOs will be on our side after all.