> DoreneFC at aol.com wrote:
>
>> 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.
And in New York the police power is multiplied by the nature of the city's dense geography.
Needless to say, I've talked to other anti-capitalists about tactics that could be used in NYC to tilt the odds in our favor. ;-)
Chuck0