He didn't even say 'get back' or anything. Dozens who saw the ruckus on Monday night say they were not adequately warned by police to clear the area. The other LAPD habit familiar to anyone who covers the military is the obfuscation, exaggeration and flat-out lying employed when spokesmen discuss performance. We're ready to go again. A police force should not, cannot operate like a military.
Citizens are different than the armies of enemy states.
Most of all, the police and the city must not measure their success merely by totalling up statistics, like arrests and injuries. The opposite, actually, is true.