11-23-2018, 07:11 PM
(11-23-2018, 04:07 PM)urbd Wrote:(11-23-2018, 02:19 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Start arresting people who are occupying the street. Start early in the day patrolling up and down the street and arrest anybody who violates the right-of-way of the patrol car.
Not sure how effective this would really be.
I do remember years ago when this was previously an issue one year the police showed up early in the day. I don’t know exactly what their orders were but I assume they started ticketing offences early in the day to try to keep it under control from the beginning.
I wonder how the $half-million compares to costs for other events? I have no idea. Sounds awfully expensive for one party.
What? no way. Do you want to live in a police state? Plus this would likely cost so much more money and resources than just having police walking around the party and supervising.
Well, on the one hand, I don’t think it’s really heading in the direction of a police state to insist that a particular road not be obstructed by pedestrians. But on the other hand, I agree it would be very expensive, and even though I speculated about how to shut down the party entirely, I’m not really convinced that is necessary or even desireable. How bad is the party any way? To what extent is the policing cost essentially optional? Presumably we wouldn’t have such a party with no police supervision at all, but did they really need to spend $500,000 on it? Again, I don’t know. I don’t actually envy the chief at all: if he doesn’t do enough and a riot breaks out, he gets blamed. If he spends too much or is too heavy-handed, he gets blamed. It’s not at all obvious to me what he should do.