Why We Are Not Making Demands of the World Economic Forum

[Chuck Munson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> Michael Pollak wrote:
> 
> >I remember Doug saying in a discussion not long after Seattle that things
> >would have turned out differently in New York because it was so much
> >bigger and had so many more cops.  6,000 last I heard, plus feds and
> >private security firms.
> 
> They had something like 1,200 cops in Seattle - the whole police
> force. The NYPD is deploying almost 4,000 a day for the WEF. At the
> end of WTO week, I went up to a bunch of Seattle cops and said, "I'm
> from New York, and I don't think this could have happened there." One
> cop answered, "Yes. The NYPD knows how to do crowd control. No one on
> the west coast does."

On the flip side, the NYPD does not have the experience controlling a
riot or an unruly demonstration numbering 50-100,000. I'm sure they can
control demonstrations of 10,000 with 4,000 officers, but they are
fooling themselves if they are prepared for a European or Asian style
protest. That won't happen this weekend, but we can hope for a big
showdown in the future.

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