Mayor Mike's Bad Analogy

If you're in your apartment and some emotionally disturbed person is banging on the door screaming, 'I'm gonna come through this door and kill you,' do you want us to respond with one police officer, which is proportional, or with all the resources at our command?

I don't know about you guys, but if one crazy man that poses no perceivable threat is outside my appartment screaming that he is going to kill me, I really think that one officer would do. Heck, even if he is a threat to me, I think the full force of the New York City Police Department is probably not necessary. I mean, they are among the best trained cops in the world, and I'm guessing that it really only takes one regularly armed NYPD officer to stop a crazy man. It would just be weird if the bomb dogs and armored vehicles and SWAT units came in that situation, that is all I am saying. All I'm saying is that the NYPD has some heavy weaponry. Probably, you want to stop a crazy man with a nightstick, maybe some bullets if there is imminent danger. The full resources of the NYPS, that is, blowing up the building the crazy man is inside of in order to kill him part would seem, well, excessive.