Police are being targeted. Is this the slow motion societal collapse?

Something is going on in this country.

I keep up with quite a few things.  I watch military matters (of course), but also keep an eye on the market, and have a view on law enforcement.

Unless I'm mistaken, we're seeing a pretty dramatic increase in the number of deadly assaults on law enforcement.  What should make the average citizen sit up and take notice is this.  If criminals have gone from running from police, past simply confronting and getting in fist fights with them, to now full fledged shootouts and ambushes then what is the average joe in for from the beasts?

American Mercenary will call me tinfoil hat-ish for thinking that this is another data point in my theory that we're seeing a slow motion societal collapse but I don't think so.

Oh and consider this.  From talking to my buds in law enforcement they always point to the summer months as the time for most violence.  It ain't summer yet and the country is boiling.  August will be interesting.