the police commisioner is the power behind the cops
and the training is at the beck and call of them, and you need to go back to Rudy Giuliani's time and see how much better it is now under Mike, but not perfect

according to the accounts, a friend/eye witness was right there and could easily have talked

the guy was probably looking for a police suicide death and he got it

but like the cops shoot blacks at will 40,50,60 times, and some proven under steriod rage and other they are certainly not top notch.

(one should raise the cops salaries ten times and get a better crop of police.)

Thank God the two were white, otherwise who knows what would be happening now.

as this is my opinion and not a researched for months post(s),I am offering thoughts, but then again, you still haven't proved it any better than me.

one thing-you misunderstood what I said about tourists- the two guys with the grudge match of course were locals.
I was referring to the 100s or 1000s of tourists in that area as the Empire State building is one of the five biggest tourist attractions in the city (along with the musuem of natural history and the WTC etc.) I was saying if those people all had guns, to quote Apocolypse Now's famous lines "the horror the horror"