Oh, I'm sure the police will "stand down" for a completely different reason. Can't get that pension if you're not alive to use it after all. The city cops had the choice to defend citizens from a riot against orders, they chose their jobs. Their job will then tell them to throw down their lives pointlessly against an army, for the sake of corrupt bureaucrats; will they follow orders then?

Oh, I'm sure the police will "stand down" for a completely different reason. Can't get that pension if you're not alive to use it after all.