The closest parallel I can think of is the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. There, the civil authorities dynamited a number of buildings and homes to create a fire break and stop the fires from spreading further. Subsequently the building owners sued for compensation, and the courts held that no compensation was due because the dynamiting was done pursuant to police powers to protect the health and safety of the city residents.
I was thinking of the same circumstance. Explosives were used across the city. Most famously, all of one side of Van Ness Avenue. Used a little two much, and the blasts set more fires. An early example of effective municipal government in San Francisco, but there was properly no compensation because it came under the police power
Your SF Quake analogy is a bit off, in that just about all homes were damaged in the quake, these particualr homes and buildings were dynamited to create a fire break to prevent the raging fire from consuming the city whole. “Ham and Eggs” fire I think it was called. Started in a damaged home on Van Ness. But then again, things were a little different back then.
Or maybe the police should ask to be transferred to LA, Seattle, or Chicago to use their police state military equipment - it won’t damage as much there! May be in fact be welcomed by the locals!