I don’t believe that would do them any good. If they do protect the violent gangs then the public would turn against them. It’s one thing to try to disarm us by political BS, but to actually help the criminal rioters would turn public opinion against them and start a revolution.
The taxpayers expect the police or military to be on their side in such events, but if not they risk becoming part of the targets in a riot shooting game.
I think the main thing is to get out of the feral cities and move to states and towns where the “non-union” police are not thugs like they are in many big cities today. Organized crime has taken on a new face and much of it is in civil service uniforms and paying mob/union dues to Chicago. We live in a very different world then the 60’s Seattle that I grew up in.