is that police don't 'protect' the law-abiding. The Supreme Court has ruled that there is no duty of the police to protect the law-abiding, even when the law-abiding have a court order. Please see Castle Rock v. Gonzales:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/04-278

No, folks, the police actually protect the criminally accused or convicted from the law-abiding. The police do have a duty to protect people who are in the custody of law enforcement.

Perhaps no better example of how the police protect the criminal from the law-abiding was seen than in the arrest of Richard Ramirez, aka "The Night Stalker," who had murdered and raped his way across the LA basin in from 1984 to 1985.

When Ramirez was arrested, the citizenry had caught him and they good citizens of Los Angeles were in the process of beating Ramirez to a pulp when the police arrived and saved Ramirez, so that the taxpayers could house, feed and litigate him at great expense.