On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Sunder wrote:
except these cops don't (yet?) have tanks
Actually, in New York, they do. At least they *did* when I lived there, all the way up to 1985. They had exactly one tank (used to mow down the drug houses in AlphabetTown), and an APC. Oh, and the PD helicopters were bought, paid for, and maintained through inventive use of the "Auxiliary Police" program (more appropriately the Placebo Police program. STOP or I'll hurt myself!). -- Yours, J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org 0xBD4A95BF "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do not. And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out about them." Osama Bin Laden - - - "There aught to be limits to freedom!" George Bush - - - Which one scares you more?