>>Why abjure an opportunity to show how the people are being protected?
Because kicking the good people off the beach so the bad ones can have it is not protecting people. Summon the SWAT teams and let them kill some criminals for a change.
That is what I would do... kill them and stack them high.
LLS
I am referring to the propaganda value of it. It would surely not be described your way by the police or the Mayor. They don’t think of things the same way you and I do.