>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?
That's not really the point - it's not about routine policing, it's about how many bodies the cops have to deploy against demonstrators. The NYPD has a 33/1 advantage. The pop ratio is about 10/1. NYC is very heavily policed - LA has 8,000 cops for a city someething like half New York's size.
Doug