re: At what point will police unions across the country say enough is enough?

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A lot of the projects in Nola the cops won't go into, sucks for the few good people living in those areas but oh well.

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The police in Chicago do the same. They'll go into Humboldt Park, West Englewood, Austin, and Chatham but they aren't hanging around. Something will have to look more than fishy or suspicious for them to even bother. It isn't worth risking their lives to investigate any potential crimes based of reasonable suspicion. You better have an on-going emergency, hold up, etc. Those areas essentially police themselves. Hence why it's a shite hole and you'll never see anything closely resembling progress in those areas.

If the police did go on strike, I don't think you'll see a full scale "Purge" where ruthless murders are happening all over the streets, but I believe you'd find more senseless, random acts of crime and violence. Things such as ransacking convenient stores, petty theft, burglary, random assaults of public transportation, etc. It could potentially be devastating on the economy (in a bigger city at least).