It's important to understand what is happening on the macro level and micro level. If you aren't watching your local news and aware of what is happening in your city, you cannot properly respond or understand what your position should be, because your front line is different than everyone else's. You cannot get mad at your police officer for something a diversity hire, or low IQ ex-military mall cop in some other city is doing. Interpreting your experience and strategy through a Macro lense doesn't help at all unless you feel and enough people are in agreement feel its time to turn up the civilian response.