[lbo-talk] Seattle redux

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 1 17:08:15 PDT 2003


Chuck0 wrote:


>I wouldn't argue that police have to have massive forces to control
>a crowd, but a massive force of police can put a significant damper
>on crowd behavior, i.e. as the NYPD has shown in NYC.

There are something like 40,000 cops in NYC. As I recall, Seattle had about 1,200.

Doug



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