They are making a show of force on TV, but they are no different than here. They don't have the troops to lock everyone down and need voluntary compliance for the vast majority of it.
They will probably get it too.
I can give you a Canadian example for comparison, a city of 200,000 people with about 2400 cops. Cops work in shifts, so only about 800 working at one time. Of that, only about 400 can be on the streets, in cars, two per car, so about 200 cars total, and that is being generous, to patrol the entire city of 200,000. One cop car per 1000 citizens. If 10% are locked down, the one car has to enforce on 100 citizens. It can't be done.
So you make a lot of noise on TV.
If they lose the TV, they lose control.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
One of my favorite books.
The seat of their power lies in the perception that they even have it in the first place.
I like your thoughts man.
They need to start losing equipment like cruisers and cameras. This will put a damper on thier terrorism.
Out of the 100 you have 50 women. Out of 50 men 60% are too young or too old leaving 20. One cop to 20 men is still terrible odds, much less 200.
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