I thought of a good, yet silly, paralel with the things going on here. Remember on Ghostbusters when they released all those ghosts around NY and it was like chaos. Kinda like that, but with criminals, but over the whole country, in an anarchy and war environment. Business are closed, people are been asked to leave their jobs and stay at home to protect their families. Transport is chaotic, communications are chaotic. I've heard on the radio that the army will move into action, it is now legally a war state over the country. Like Iraq now, but the body count is way higher here than on Iraq, and with no police forces acting at all.