You might recall that ol' Billionaire Mike boasted that he has, in the NYPD, the world's seventh largest army.
Not even close, Mikey. The NYPD has 35,000 officers and 4,000 auxiliary officers. For active forces, they rank just behind Georgia, which has 37,000 people on active duty in its armed forces.* Singapore, which is probably as close to a comparable nation-city as Bloomberg seems to want New York City to be, has 72,000 on active duty and 300,000 in reserve.**
Seventh is South Korea, with over 600,000 on active duty and over 2,400 tanks. The Korean Marines would probably handily wipe out the NYPD without even breaking a sweat.
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* Georgia handily lost a short war with Russia in 2008. The Russians only sent a few regiments into the conflict, they were poised to take the capitol of Georgia when the war ended though negotiations.
** Singapore also has eight airports. NYC has two open airports, LGA and JFK, and two closed airports that conceivably could be used for military use, Floyd Bennett Field and Flushing Airport, though Flushing would require total rebuilding.
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Yep, the Korean Marines would knock the NYPD out without a sweat.
Was this guy home schooled by Herman Ghering or someone like that? I came away from my education feeling that private armies were the sign of a despot and something to be ashamed of, not Bragged about!
"what a world, what a world"
w3ski
of course back then the Ntnl. Guard was stationed here in case of disasters, not overseas in a useless war.
He's having meglo dreams and smokin stuff. He may have manpower but police even the militerized ones are not trained in unit level tactics nor do they have a logistics system. In a skirmish they would be meat paste against any military force in short order. Even faster if the public were not behind them.
The force that would stomp the likely would be the NY State Guard units. I'm sure the PA, NJ and CT, MA and VT guard units are up to it
as well. Especially since most of them have real recent experience.
Bloomie has a ego problem, he's only a mayor.
Eck!
I wonder how those 'police' feel about being called a private army.
Then again, I probably don't want to know.
It does provide an opportunity to reexamine nyc's decision to revoke term limits so Bloomberg could have a third term.
A Republican lied? Really?
I also hear water is wet ;).
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
BadTux,there's a difference between being wrong and lying. I suspect that Hizzoner truly believes that he has the 7th largest army in the world.
"Army", my ass. 35,000 Glock-armed goons couldn't stand up to a real army armed with weapons from the First World War.
Ah, but *New York,* as in the voting citizens, *DIDN'T* do away with term limits; the *City Council* did. Guess who had the smarts (and the money, natch) to buy the City Council prior to their vote. . . .
Anyway, the Council has the sole power to change such things. Not one solitary voter was, or needed to be, consulted.
And there was quite the uproar from the citizenry too, let me tell you.
"Uproar", maybe, but not enough of one. He still won, albeit not by the margin that he was used to getting, given that Mikey dropped something like $100 million of his own money on the campaign (not counting the "contributions" he made to the City Councilmen).
Let me know when he puts his horse on the city council.
In this day and age, it would probably be the captain of his Gulfstream.
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