You know, that’s an opportunity.
Any time attention is focused on one place, there’s less on another.
Take the moment and target something else.
That would probably work if there wasn’t a ridiculous overabundance of cops in just about all American cities.
As it is, there’s enough of them to function as a private security force for billionaires and their property (their primary raison d’être) in greater numbers than usual like this without neglecting any of their usual oppression of minorities, poor people, and especially combinations thereof.
Unless these cops are in superposition, they can’t be both protecting Tesla and, say, in their actual cars.
Their numbers are finite.
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In Minecraft. Always in Minecraft.
Their numbers are finite, yes. However, those finite numbers are much larger than they need to be and society would be much better and safer for the vast majority of people if there were almost none of them.
Not in Minecraft.
Sure, you gotta still use stealth and planning, but you’re dealing with a different level of attention.
Vandalism normally isn’t a high priority in the cities I’ve been in. People report it, and the response time is slow, even in wealthy areas or business centers because it’s just not an emergency. They’ll dispatch a car or two, or the equivalent, but they won’t send bigger numbers, and any kind of riot response is going to be slower because they’re held back for the obvious target.
Same with small numbers of people making quick strikes at targets that support the main focus of the actions.
Couple that with coordination at targets and false actions to distract, and you can do some decent amount of work in the time you’ll have
Chicago has a pretty big police force unfortunately. Looks like around 12- 13k little piggies (source)
So about 25 cops here leaves… roughly 12- 13k cops in the rest of the city :P
ETA: fun facts, the Chicago Police Dept budget is just below $2 billion. That puts it right below Slovakia’s entire military budget. Slovakia’s population is ~5.5 million vs. Chicago’s 2.7 million people.
Chicago alone has almost as many cops as the entirety of Ireland (which has 14.6k cops for 5.3 million Irish citizens)
Cops are class traitors
What a completely reasonable and absolutely not wasteful use of police time and resources! “Hello, 911? My house is being robbed!” “Sorry, no officers are available because they’re at the Tesla dealership”
Police, on the wrong side of everything, since the start of time.
They had no choice in the matter. I am willing to bet no one wanted to stand there.
Do you have a job? Does it require you to do things you don’t want to do? Would you rather sit on your ass than stand outside of a car dealership all day? For most including the police the answer to all of these is “yes”.
Their choice is to continue their career as a police officer. Obviously they will need to take some job to support themselves or a family, but there are so many options which don’t require them to be a defense force of a harmful system, enforcing broken laws and harassing those who protest against it.
20-some officers protecting shitty hunks of metal, when there’s murderers, rapists, pedofiles, and human traffickers roaming free. This image perfectly sums up their commitment to protecting the Lifestyles of the Rich and Fascist over the rest of us.
