> NYPD polls well.
oh its more extreme than that. a majority of people support actual military augmentation for the police during these riots
https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2020/06/0118162...
oh its more extreme than that. a majority of people support actual military augmentation for the police during these riots
https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2020/06/0118162...
If you're trying to convince a majority to change its views, labelling them as "extreme" is unhelpful.
Many New Yorkers are within living memory of the Cold War-era crime peaks that almost destroyed our city. 9/11 and the Boston Bombing normalized a more-militarized police, as well as the NYPD building up an intelligence agency that rivals some countries'.
Looting isn't terrorism. And we have had zero mass violence from protesters. But there are good reasons for an island as dense as Manhattan to be hyper-sensitive to incipient lawlessness. (There are also bad ones.)
The types, frequency, and severity of crimes are different in different sized communities. The tactics and responses should be different. But somehow, policy-makers and police chiefs see something happening in NYC and think, "Yeah, we need that here to."
In tech, people say "You are not Facebook, you are not Google, you are not Amazon. The solutions that work for them and the huge scale at which they operate are going to be overkill, or flat-out not work at all, for your 10k user start-up." And yet, people expect the tactics of a PD in a city like New York to work in a city like Raleigh, NC.