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A private corporation pumping money into police department.

What could possibly go wrong?

> As a New Yorker, this surprised me too. Tech companies should consider supporting the budgets of the SFPD et al.

Seriously. NYPD would be all over them blocking traffic and breaking windows.

They weren't riding bikes, so I doubt the NYPD would care.

(Though honestly, the NYPD has been pretty nice to me while riding a bike. But I'm new around here.)

This is SV, which is like a giant office park. NYPD is more like the army than what is the police in SV.

Oakland and San Francisco are not in Silicon Valley. San Francisco is the second most densely populated city in the US.