Dear cops: Please don’t quit the jurisdictions that support you, but flee places like Atlanta as if you were being pursued by zombie hoards.
I imagine that’s the way it will go down. Cops quitting en masse will be a macro phenomenon but, unless his/her department is abolished/defunded, each cop who quits will have made an individual decision to do so. And that decision will be based on whether the job is worth it at the pay received. Oakland PD, for example, has long had a high attrition rate, with cops deciding that dealing the high criminality among certain segments of the city’s population just ain’t worth for what they get paid. You’ll likely see a lot more of that nationwide. And, sadly, the cities and neighborhoods that need cops the most will lose them the first.