Something that has bothered me since watching Richard Engel's show on the Capitol insurrection

[Arthur_Frain]

9. I don't think the majority of the cops there took this seriously.

I watched it unfold that morning. Cops were bantering with the crowd, even until after it soured. With a few exceptions, I don’t think anyone there really expected this to go down the way it did. “It can’t happen here”, right? That’s what we were all so sure of, because I’d heard threats like this every election lately. Never followed through though.

I’m wondering how much the rot within the cops felt the need to keep it’s head down? Do the cops follow the “blue line” rah-rah bullshit even when it becomes obvious that it’s going to destroy them too? How blatant is it where we can’t see?