That's part of the problem. I'm very comfortable letting Adstringendum lapse into our previous comfortable anarchy, but if it does it's imperative that the transition be as non-violent as possible. The dissolution of the police force might be for the best... as long as it isn't seen as permission to start an all-out war.

What happened was just as you said, the mistakes of children, but despite the consequences, it isn't anything we haven't seen before. Half of the people clamouring so violently have made attempts to breach the inner city, for example. They were lucky enough not to tread on the same mines, but it was done with the exact same recklessness. Every time the animus announce an event, there's a twerp or two that needs to chatter with them, to insult them or demand explanations or justification. Even Undertaker went and had tea with one of them, while fire rained from the sky.

If we as a community murder children for recklessness, it must be done for intent, not for consequence, and if that's what we decide to do then half the city will end up slaughtered.