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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (34536)5/9/2008 12:31:55 AM
From: energyplay  Read Replies (1) of 217700
 
For most of San Jose, the streets are too wide, it takes a lot of people to even partially fill a street. Public transit isn't great, so there needs to be places for the rioters to park.

That leaves maybe the San Jose State campus as able to hold a major riot, or sports venues (Look at how Staples Center in LA seems to be a focus of riots)

A riot of less than a hundred people can be contained by local police forces with the rapid assistance of nearby towns, inside of ten minutes, the one hundred people would face over twenty cops, which would likely stop things, another ten minutes and twenty to thirty more cops would appear.

Every police would want to get riot experience - they might not see another riot for six more years.

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I have heard that during the first day of the Rodney King riots, there were a line of police cars and sherriff's deputies blocking the parts of Santa Monica Boulevard that are the entrance to the Rodeo Drive retail section of Beverly Hills.
The story is they would turn away cars filled with young men who did not look like they were there for shopping.
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