If I were a citizen of Boston, I would like to see a break down of these costs. Are we paying somebody to turn on an emergency management software program? Are there special people that only get paid when there is a crisis? Bomb squad? K-9 Handlers? Or do these people collect salaries and only alter their job descriptions when a crisis takes place and maybe rake in a few extra hours of overtime? Or would we be fining these people for merely raising the mayor's blood pressure for a few hours?
Serious question, what's the basis behind this estimate?
Attach big number behind dollar sign to bogus expense and act outraged. Full stop.
Everything costs a Million Dollars. Haven't you noticed?
I don't think we pay the entire state trooper force that much per day. But how could it possibly have cost a million bucks to take down 38 of these things? That's a thousand people each getting a thousand dollars of overtime pay for a day's work?
What physical costs were there? Did they go to the store and BUY BOMB TRUCKS for the job, and throw them away when they were done?