I completely agree. Law and order (policing) depends on a cop being able to trust that another cop will keep order in his neighborhood while he goes out and maintains order in your neighborhood. Once that understanding breaks down, it's over. The cops stay home.

Let's talk about a country that lost a Revolution: Rhodesia. No, they didn't line up white people and shoot them, but Zimbabwe did do that the blacks who "lost" during Mugabe's 1980s genocide, the Gukurahundi. The minority Ndebele tribe and supporter's of Mugabe's rival Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU party were targeted. 20,000 or more civilians were killed as the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade carried out mass killings, torture, disappearances, and collective punishment. Whites in post-revolutionary Zimbabwe faced a different form of retaliation, primarily through political marginalization, intimidation, violence, and eventually large-scale property confiscation. During the 1990s and dramatically after 2000, the government accelerated land seizures. White-owned commercial farms were occupied and confiscated, often accompanied by intimidation, assaults, and occasionally murder. Farmworkers, most of whom were black Zimbabweans, also suffered displacement and violence. Losing a revolution does not necessarily mean immediate extermination or expulsion. Defeated populations may initially be accommodated, only to lose their political influence later on, giving way to systematic discrimination, confiscation of property, forced displacement, imprisonment, and eventually mass murder. History provides examples of persecution escalating into genocide. In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge executed members of the defeated government before expanding their persecution to intellectuals, religious communities, ethnic minorities, and eventually their own supporters. In Rwanda, decades of ethnic discrimination, political violence, and civil conflict culminated in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. In the Ottoman Empire, Armenians were increasingly portrayed as disloyal enemies before being subjected to mass deportation, dispossession, and extermination in 1915.