The Police Protection Paradoxes

In practice, most of the police protection in the last two or three months has been for the rioters, looters and arsonists.  The police are there to protect the criminals from the otherwise peaceable men and women, not the peaceable from the criminals. [More]

The other paradox is that this is happening in areas with high concentrations of police. Get fanned-out destroyers to a place where the limited official force will soon be overwhelmed and triaged, and that means armed citizens will realize it's all up to them and their neighbors, and that the manpower, armament, and terrain advantages are theirs.