"This is copaganda, designed primarily to provide the mayor with political cover, but then also to show off the military might and alleged professionalism of the NYPD."
The police is literally the paramilitary through which the state exercises it’s monopoly on violence… there is absolutely nothing the police does that is “merely” dumb and absolutely nothing it does that isn’t dangerous.
You might just as well say that there’s a way of crashing a truck into a crowd that is merely “dumb” but (somehow) “not dangerous.”
The police is literally the paramilitary through which the state exercises it’s monopoly on violence… there is absolutely nothing the police does that is “merely” dumb and absolutely nothing it does that isn’t dangerous.
You might just as well say that there’s a way of crashing a truck into a crowd that is merely “dumb” but (somehow) “not dangerous.”