Perhaps the idea that police should protect themselves flipped the default priority for some/many/most(?) police in the US to protect themselves first, do their

Perhaps the idea that police should protect themselves flipped the default priority for some/many/most(?) police in the US to protect themselves first, do their job second. This set of priorities then mutates into the perverse behavior we see now where their own safety stand far away and above the responsibility of doing their job.