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3. "unfortunately sometimes necessary" -- uh, based on what evidence, exactly ?

Please, Mr. Bratton, cite me an example of an occasion when the NYPD *really* needed to open up on a crowd with machine gun fire, and all the horrible things that happened because they couldn't. I'm guessing nothing you can come up with will be worse than police slaughtering civilians with machine guns, which is what you're opening the door to. Of course, I guess maybe it's more realistic to cite the example of "what just happened in Paris", when it would have been really helpful to burst into an office full of civilians or a hostage situation in a grocery store and start spraying machine gun fire. That would clear all those inconvenient hostages and bystanders out of the way !