The Boomerang Effect
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Interesting video. Thanks for posting.
I can't help but wonder if there is a material difference between such militarization in LA, Chicago, Detroit, NY, Boston, Philly....on the one hand.....and Dallas, Tulsa, OKC, Houston, San Antonio, KC...on the other hand.
I can't help but wonder if there is a material difference between such militarization in LA, Chicago, Detroit, NY, Boston, Philly....on the one hand.....and Dallas, Tulsa, OKC, Houston, San Antonio, KC...on the other hand.
I don't know, but it is true. I would suspect it has to do with the size of the budget and the size of the bureaucratic hierarchy. NYC police is a cult, with long standing familial (mostly Irish) lines. It is an enormous force with an enormous budget.
OKC couldn't be more different
Thank God I have never been visited by an OKC SWAT team. I have doubts their tactics are materially different from anyplace else. I pray I never find out!
Maybe it would be a bad day, but it would be MATERIALLY worse in NYC.
The Special Operations Unit (Militarized part of the department) of NYPD by itself is larger than the entire OKCPD. It highly resembles our US Dept of Defense, with Air, Ground, Marine, Mounted, Mass Destruction, Canine and Strategic Response units totaling 2,000 active personnel. The OKC police department has 1,200 officers and 300 office support in total (1,500 per million population). The total department in NYC is 54,000 strong (7,000 per million population).
Don't doubt there is a material difference. I've witnessed it with my own eyes.
You make a convincing argument. My only point was they bash heads regardless of the numbers involved. As regards the original link about the boomerang effect your numbers are horrifying for the continuance of a free society (if we can still be called a free society).
