quote:Originally posted by TheWatchman:
Still, there are less pro-war rallies which means that on a day-to-day basis, they are not pulling as many cops from "real work". This is all I was saying. If you have 100 anti-war protests this month and 30 pro-war rallies this month, there are more cops, overall, that are not being used to protect it's citizens from terrorists etc. because they are at the anti-war protests.
Ah-ha! I was the one who missed the point, sorry about that. I read your original comment to mean that it was only protests and protests alone that pulled the police away from their more important duties and I didn't feel it was fair to put 100% of the blame in one place, but you were basing your summation on the over-all ratio of protests to pro-war rallies. We were kind of comparing apples and oranges. I see now
