"and they retreated"
At a loss for words - just hope they never get a night's sleep again.
They’ll sleep just fine. Their job is to protect the government and enforce their political masters’ will on the populace. Their job is NOT to protect the populace. It takes courage to risk your life going against an enemy who can fight back. The military has this mindset. Cops don’t. You don’t join the police with any real expectation of risking your life. Cops aren’t infantry and wouldn’t come close to qualifying psychologically though they puff themselves up and act as though you should treat them as they went in on the first wave at Omaha beach.