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In most ways, yes we will return to normal perfectly well. Most of the things we used to love will return and nearly the same as we experienced them before. Most changes, will be so subtle and welcome, that we won’t even remember not having them.But in other ways, we’ll see surprising changes. Most of those changes will be for the better. Here’s some for instances:People complain about high housing prices in many cities. San Francisco, a magnet for in demand tech skills, is among the worst in places in the nation for buying a home. That might change soon, thanks entirely to COVID.How? Here’s the way the logic goes. Companies early on went to lockdown mode where all “non-essential” employees were asked to work from home. Given the era we live in, internet technology and such, that scheme actually worked. Many people were still productive in spite of not being in the same building for long periods of time. It was depressing, but it somehow functioned. Some companies even came to realize that they could do well if their employees never come back to the office. So what does this mean for tech centric geographies like San Francisco? It means that savvy tech entrepreneurs could begin to normalize remote working to where whole teams never meet in person. That means you don’t have to live anywhere near the center of your startup hub. You could live in a remote village by a lake in a Oklahoma. There, your pay could be comparable to where you “work”, but the cost of living of where you live means you live an extravagant wealthy lifestyle as compared to your other peers at the firm. Even more so. Expect that many people might use that to ask for less in compensation while still living very, very well. There’s also no stopping people from working in SF, but living on some tropical island paradise.So this is one way that things will be “better”, unless you’re trying to sell property in the Bay. But, “better” in the environment of intensely changing environments responding to new norms should probably be termed more as “works better”, because many people might see this new norm greatly change their prospects for the worse.Taken further, and what is probably the most likely outcome, outsourcing of the extremely expensive salaries paid to coders in the United States altogether might be a thing of the past. Those savvy firms are now equipped to simply hire people who can do the job, but work from Ahmedabad, India; İzmir, Turkey; or Casablanca, Morocco; or literally anywhere on Earth with a stable internet connection — all on the same team. Don’t be surprised to see a future where four coders internationally replace one coder in the United States. We might look back and ask how we paid such outrageous salaries in the United States or Europe. That will be a big deal for some parts of America and even more so for a generation raised on the idea that if you want a good job, learn to code. In fact, many of those not a decade ago who mocked those looking work to international manufacturing with smug advice like “learn to code” might find themselves unable to compete with foreign competition able to twice what they can for a fourth of what they can afford to work for.So what might be the big changes in this scenario?A collapse of the housing market in tech-centric local economiesA collapse of the labor prices for programing jobs in the United StatesAn effective transfer of wealth from American programmers to programmers overseas.The average consumer’s behaviors are changing, too. Contactless shopping, whether that is will automated apps that allow WalMart to know when you’ve arrived and deliver your pre-selected and prepaid groceries direct to your car seemed like a way to solve the pandemic from their point of view, but really, it was a cost cutting experiment that is the new way to go for many businesses.The direction we’ve been going, and which COVID simply sped up, is to have a shopping experience that is entirely impersonal reaching towards a future where all shopping, whether that’s clothes or groceries is done online without the need of brick and mortar sites to serve as stores for supplies. WalMart introduced Pickup, but others are going so far as doorstep delivery. Delivery startups like Grubhub and Uber Eats were already getting popular Pre-COVID, but have exploded since the lockdowns started. Frankly, these new methods solve a lot of people’s problems with or without a plague. If a new method solves problems, then it isn’t going away just because the impetus for change did.But… the realities for that are ugly for others. Small businesses, those too small to implement app based solutions are going to have it even harder to compete against massive mega distributors like Amazon, who have been on the cusp of normalizing drone delivery systems for years. Essentially, if you aren’t an online seller, you aren’t a seller.That being the case, expect real estate for commercial properties that have built around in person shopping, such as the malls of yesteryear and even those large WalMarts to start fading away as these new methods of distribution become the future far, far faster than we expected thanks to COVID. In the worst cases, those malls will become abandoned entirely, and their grounds will become eye sores in communities preventing further development as they become overrun with rodents, environmental contamination, and criminals seeking an easy hideaway near formally prosperous neighborhoods.Big changes:Changes in distribution means changes in people’s shopping behavior much faster than we expected.Real estate woes for brick and mortar distribution centersThat also applies to movie theaters, which might be circling the drain as we speak. I read somewhere that Disney’s new live action Mulan opened to a record breaking $180 worldwide when it premiered at only one theatre in Norway. Without Disney+, which literally could not have come at a better time, and the ability to purchase directly new movie content, Mulan could have been the biggest box office bomb in the history of cinema. Streaming already has changed our lives and it’s unlikely that we will want to go back. Most of us like our couches and don’t prefer overpaying for popcorn. The only time we go out, therefor, might be when we do truly special events, like a concert where your favorite band is in town. That sucks for dating, but is way more convenient.While the movie theatre industry might suffer, movies are about to get a lot more fun, though — if you’re into vampires.Nosferatu, the 1922 German vampire movie, was in part, inspired by the epidemic that was sweeping the world at that time. The Spanish Flu raged from 1918 to 1920. In the disease’s wake, one hundred million people died. The world population was about a fourth of what it is today, so imagine if COVID, in the next 18 months, killed nearly half a billion people worldwide. Kill off one in every 14 people you know in your imagination and you would begin to understand the mindset of people in that era — even the artsy types.With Nosferatu, the themes of lockdown and pandemic are present, and the villain is some nearly unkillable hidden invader from a foreign land who strikes at the weak from the shadows. Dracula, in all his forms, aside from a story based a bloodthirsty Romanian king, is and always has been an allegory for plagues. Even the more classic depictions from Bram Stoker’s 1892 classic Dracula, are of an evil foreign invader to London who turns his victims into his evil acolytes to spread the “disease” of vampirism.The last century had Dracula, but the Americans invented zombies. While many expected them to have run their course of popular attention, don’t expect our modern day fascination a horde of undead mindlessly seeking new hosts to spread to go away any time soon, either.The concern with spreading disease will manifest somehow in artwork depicting monsters that spread uncontrollably, takes over its victims, and turns them to the side of evil. This is a natural human response to a shared traumatic response and serves as a form of catharsis and teaches an allegory message about cleanliness that lives on for generations.On the negative side, this awareness will also manifest in fear of the “outsider”. Outsider is a relative term. It doesn’t just mean people from other countries, but people from outside of anything you’re used to. People from Nebraska will be nervous of people from New York and the germs they carry, as will people from New York who will be even more nervous of people from everywhere else. We saw this in places like major liberal cities, famed for their openness to other cultures looking down on the xenophobia of everyone else. Then COVID hit and suddenly they avoided Chinese markets like… well… the plague. While thinking that a virus that started from China will literally spread from every Chinatown after international travel was already banned was laughable, it was also telling of how people quickly change their behaviors from their stated values the moment a little bit of fear is introduced.This new found xenophobia will transcend racism, though, as people will be wary of everyone, even people who look just like them, if they aren’t from around here. Granted, this will only be viewed as a problem when white people act on this feeling towards people from non-white parts of the world, but it will be a universal human condition that everyone will be just a little bit more uncomfortable with people from anywhere else thanks to crash course 2020 has delivered us on human virology.Outcomes there:Whatever can be streamed will be and you can finally kiss a night at the movies goodbye.More art depicting “virulent” monsters that turn good neighbors into the evil monstersMore caution with “outsiders”, no matter who that applies to.We will go back to sitting in crowded restaurants, churches, and concerts. Doom and gloomers who live off their own misery and spreading that to others forget that mankind has survived many pandemics, have learned from each of them, and manage a little bit better every time. Probably the most transformative changes will be those such as Chris Ebbert wrote in his answer to this question — higher efficiency. We’ll have less needs for office space, travel, or manpower; greater direct networking with teams and advice from experts; increased online presences for everything; and more options that allow people to buy literally everything without ever leaving the house. With that, there will be changes in other things, such as who gains opportunities and how some things we like but aren’t as useful now, thanks to the new advances owed to COVID, are going away.So life will return to normal in almost every conceivable way before long. Some things will change, but it won’t be that everyone will be wearing a mask everywhere they go except the extreme hypochondriacs. Perpetual lockdowns will result in perpetual outrage. Eventually, you won’t have an easy excuse to riot for some cause, and the target will be the people writing laws they don’t intend to follow (California). The negative aspects of the pandemic will go away while the good, or at least efficient, ideas that came from it will remain.Those won’t be things easy to predict and are only tangentially related to the disease itself. Really, from the perspective of cultures adapting to doing what works, we will simply view COVID-19 as the necessary stimulus to take some action which just makes more sense for the parties involved. In other cases, our change in mindsets will change how we treat each other just a little bit, acting more cautiously and being just a bit less open until the sense of unease passes or enough people are shamed for feeling as all humans naturally would following a global event of this magnitude. Whatever happens, something this big will cause someone to create art about it. That could be awesome, or could possibly be worse than the pandemic itself.

I agree with @Jerry Jones about the two most challenging things for me. It was definitely firearms and the physical training. However, I know that for others on my class it was parts of the academics or the scenarios during our training for responding to things like domestic violence or the traffic stops because they had trouble reading body language or with situational awareness.TLDR:Each cadet brings a unique set of skills from prior life experience and of course different levels of education and aptitudes for things. For me, running in the heat in the Oklahoma summer and doing firearms at an outdoor range in more than 90F was a large part of the difficulty with those things because I was in great physical shape having specifically prepared with increased running, overall strength training and grip strengthening for more than two years, and I had studied karate for years. Nevertheless, parts of each were still a challenge. I got a minor concussion during the training on how to fall.I had heard of some smaller women and men who had trouble during unarmed physical tactics and firearms because their hands and specifically their trigger fingers got tired. There had also been problems with inadequate shoulder strength to hold the arms in an extended shooting position for hours day after day. Even people who enjoy shooting do not typically shoot daily for six to seven hours in the heat for a week. No one wants to be the person who washes out or must roll back to the next class to repeat a section like firearms because of inadequate strength. How embarrassing! I used a grip strength squeeze tool and a squeeze ball for my thumb and first finger daily for at least a year in addition to doing a lot of upper body and arm work with weights right down to targeted exercises for the tiny muscles like wrist curls.By the time that I started my police academy, I had years of directly relevant training and experience. I had earned a four-year degree in Journalism. I had experience in investigating for news stories while simultaneously having worked for a police department as an unarmed Community Service Officer (CSO).Being trained to investigate and write in that context whether for publication or broadcast was extremely helpful in studying at the academy, for taking class notes and tests and of course later for doing the investigation and reports on patrol. For other people who did not enjoy reading nonfiction and who had not done well in English classes in high school or had any advanced education in writing, those requirements were difficult.I had started in Communications as a student employee before taking a full-time CSO position during my sophomore year, so I was fully certified to use the FBI and state law enforcement computer systems (NCIC and OLETS respectively).National Crime Information Center - WikipediaOklahoma Law Enforcement Telecommunications SystemIt was a more challenging module for most cadets that required them to study hard each night. Everyone who had worked in Communications previously and been certified the NCIC and OLETS computer systems breezed through that module. We spent that week studying for other subjects and tutoring a few classmates who were struggling and who had not been jerks to the six women in our class.There is a lesson here for people who think that they are better than others because they can already shoot or are bigger and stronger. At some point in a police academy, everyone gets to an area that is more difficult for them. It may be an area that a classmate excels in and could help you to learn, if you have been treating them decently. It's good practice for being on patrol when you won't like every member of the public you encounter.To maintain your professionalism, you should be able to be able to interact with people without allowing any personal biases about race, gender (fill in the group) or negative emotions about the individual (who may actually be a horrible person worthy of your contempt) to seep into what you do or say. Learn to bite your tongue and keep it professional for your own sake, and it will benefit the public as well. If you start off disliking a certain group or being apprehensive based on assumptions, try being more polite and professional and maybe over time you will discover that your old ideas were not accurate and were just an irrational bias you subconsciously picked up in your upbringing or from media.Just be observant with everyone and watch what they do without assuming. A sweet looking older white haired woman who reminds you of your grandmother can be a hardened criminal who is a midlevel drug distributor who will kill you if you go by just some preconceived notions about which groups are “criminals" instead of looking at actual actions without bias for or against someone. I've dealt with an older white woman who acted like she baked cookies as her most dangerous activity, but she had served decades in prison on a homicide and drug manufacturing and distribution. A “model minority” Asian college student can cook up methamphetamine to sell using his excellent chemistry knowledge and an unlocked university lab. A young pregnant white woman had a gun hidden in her bra and drugs packaged for sale hidden near her unborn baby.Why do I bring this up with regards to academy training? Becoming skilled at interacting with all sorts of people during highly stressful moments in their lives is at the core of what makes an excellent police officer. All of the other things like firearms or physical training or learning the law or tactics will get learned, but too many officers never seem to master the interpersonal skills that could make doing the job so much easier. This is an area where women often surpass the men in training and in the field.Can you accurately interpret facial expressions and body language? Are you watching for subtle visual clues that will help you to anticipate a subject's next move like his eyes looking around for an escape route instead of at you? Do you see his body tense up and his hands curl into fists although still at his side?Look at the curriculum for your police academy if this is a career you are considering. Do they teach verbal judo, nonverbal communication, conflict resolution, mental health intervention or anything similar? If they don't teach any of it, go learn it on your own beforehand if you can. There are classes in person and online or even shorter videos. There are law enforcement specific websites and some certified police instructors who post training videos on YouTube.This is a scenario like one might have to work through in the academy for a mental health call. It has good advice from a much longer training course.Below is a video by an experienced officer talking about good police communication skills in general making better officers. What he is saying is how I conducted myself on patrol, and it served me well. Always treating people with as much respect and professionalism and kindness as they would allow in a situation was my goal on patrol. I never once cursed at anyone or called them any negative term no matter what they were saying or doing.Don't be “a hero to a zero" because of negative interactions when it could be handled another way is the message this officer articulates quite well.

Did one law enforcement agency ever protect the people from another one in the US? For example a local police or sheriff department protecting its citizens from the Feds (FBI, DEA, etc.) when they determined that the Feds are overreaching?Local law enforcement cannot and does not typically take on federal law enforcement even in an administrative way. There have been times in US history when local law enforcement was not following the law or protecting minority citizens and federal law enforcement and even the National Guard had to be sent in to restore order and enforce the law. One famous example was when the southern states worked with local and state level politicians and vigilantes and the local and state law enforcement helped to intimidate, injure and even murder citizens for daring to want the basic rights and dignity due them as citizens and as humans.Even during those volatile times right through the 1970s, the state and local law enforcement didn't truly clash with the FBI or National Guard once the President sent them in. They gave way because the local people were wrong and violating the rights of citizens. Once the eyes of the nation turned to them and the might of the federal government was brought to bear, no individual local or state politician or agency could provide any true challenge to that combined might as there are 50 states and hundreds of millions of citizens and even a handful of states trying to continue to abuse its citizens cannot stand up to that collective will and power.The OP’s profile lists Russia, so I'm going to assume this question is a result of some confusion about the nature of modern law enforcement in the US and an ignorance of much of US history beyond a cursory and likely incorrect picture from fiction TV and films. The federal agencies listed were not around before the 20th century. Therefore, the question does not appear to be directed at earlier centuries in US history.We don't have different agencies battling like some video game or dystopian novel with private armies or quasi-official factions. We have more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the US most of which are small municipal police departments. There are many with only one or two full-time officers or even one part-time officer. Local law enforcement is provided the rest of the time by the county sheriff's department deputies who work for the elected official who is the sheriff. While there are obviously medium and large cities with much larger police departments as well, none are so overstaffed as to be sitting around looking for weird middle school boy fantasy wars with other agencies. It's simply not close to reality.The Federal Bureau of Investigation is as the name implies, an investigative agency that deals with federal crimes and things that may cross state lines. They are highly educated professionals with all of the Special Agents having at a minimum a bachelor's degree and most have a graduate or law degree. There are additional experts who work in other types of positions in the FBI like those working with computers or in the crime lab, etc. I can just imagine those forensic accountants and lab technicians in some dystopian battle with the local sheriff.FBIJOBSUnlike TV fiction where the FBI swoops in and gets into a testosterone driven turf war with some local agency where the hero detective works and they struggle over who will handle some case, in the real world local agencies deal mainly with things that don't have anything to do with the FBI's mission or jurisdiction and wouldn't involve any federal agency. Local agencies might deal with the FBI on rare occasions but in a cooperative manner when something occurs that the FBI has the expertise and jurisdiction to handle like a bank robbery. Local police might make the initial response then the FBI may bring in additional resources to help with the investigation.Often local agencies will request some type of assistance from the FBI, and on a daily basis they use the National Crime Information Computer system that is maintained by the FBI as that's how stolen vehicles, warrants and other things are checked by law enforcement across the US. FBI Special Agents regularly taught courses in our state law enforcement academy in Oklahoma, and they were wonderful instructors. They hold advanced training academies for those in local or state law enforcement at the FBI Academy as well.Other federal law enforcement agencies have other specialized missions and subject matter that falls within their purview. The police department at a public university where I worked worked closely with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other agencies on a drug smuggling case for years. They were great during joint operations.By working together, we were able to be more effective than if working at cross purposes. A drug smuggling ring was shut down. An entire aviation business was seized and its assets sold off which paid for the longterm expense of the investigation and then some as two expensive jets were part of the assets seized. The mission to protect the citizens was shared by all agencies that were involved, and the contributions and roles of each was different. No turf war or rivalry was involved.At the university PD, we also worked numerous times with the US Secret Service on protective details for the US President, a past President and other high level protectees like the head of our Joint Chiefs of Staff and his Soviet military equivalent. I personally worked with the advance teams several times before I left for law school in 1991. I worked on the day of the events in various capacities in uniformed support, plainclothes surveillance and even closely with the President's detail on one memorable occasion. We never had any occasion to deal with them in their investigative mission, but everyone was incredibly professional and gracious.There are a lot of idiots spouting conspiracy theories about federal agencies online and on TV. Unfortunately, some of those regularly spouting nonsense are occasionally elected officials who are doing it for political purposes with little to no thought about the damage they are doing by eroding public confidence in our institutions. In a society based on the rule of law, effective law enforcement agencies are a necessity. In modern US history, our federal agencies have tended to be the ones more insulated from corruption and undue influence by politics. As a citizen who is a visible minority in the US, given our history of officially sanctioned and institutionalized racism I would not put my confidence in state or local government protecting me from federal law enforcement but rather the opposite.