[lbo-talk] Seattle redux

DoreneFC at aol.com DoreneFC at aol.com
Wed Oct 1 17:22:23 PDT 2003


In a message dated 10/1/2003 5:10:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dhenwood at panix.com writes:


> 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
>

And what is the total population of Manhattan: how many million live there and how many million more commute in? The city of Seattle has a population of about 700,000 so what are we comparing?

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