Nearly 3 Dozen Detectives Assigned to White Flag Mystery

[Alan C.]

Nearly 3 Dozen Detectives Assigned to White Flag Myster

 

The development came as the NYPD — humiliated by the intruders who planted the surrender-type white flags — assigned nearly three dozen of its top detectives to crack the case, The Post has learned.Elite investigators were yanked from homicide, counterterrorism, intel and transit to hunt down the infiltrators, who went unnoticed as they climbed atop the bridge’s 276-foot towers on Tuesday, police sources said.Detectives from Manhattan’s Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and 10th Precincts also joined the investigation, which included combing through video from Pace University, nearby subway stations and elsewhere on both sides of the span, the sources said.“We have no good images of these guys on cameras . . . None of the footage captures the perpetrators of this crime,” a police source said.

[Magnus]

“We’re on high alert,” said one counterterrorism cop.

 

I've always thought that, if someone were interested in that sort of thing (which I am not), and I wanted to engage in some sort of public, symbolic act of defiance (which I don't), a key part of an effective plan would be to toss a few packs of firecrackers into the lobby of the local police station and/or City Hall.  The government's entire responding manpower would be so insanely preoccupied with the fireworks, as a clear chemical/potential nuclear attack on civilization itself, that you could pretty much do whatever you wanted for hours without fear of police intervention. 

[Infinite Limit]

The Stockholm Syndrome...it hurts.

[fractional slacker]

New FDR game: is it N. Korea or is it NY?One question brings clarity to this insanity. If you were a cop, what would you rather do: difficult police work that includes interacting with violent criminals, or "investigate" by watching video surveillance of a flag on a bridge?