I wish it were a joke. Keep in mind, the NYPD has 35,000 officers. That is more than the number of active duty military troops in half the independent states on the planet, including such wide-ranging (and more heavily populated than NYC) places as Sweden, Zimbabwe and Guatemala. When anti-police brutality activists here refer to the NYPD in neighborhoods with people of color as an "occupying army", it's not an exaggeration.
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Date: 2006-11-29 03:07 pm (UTC)