The required deposit came about because Trump failed to pay an $81,837 bill from a campaign event he held at the Tucson Convention Center in 2016.
The required deposit came about because Trump failed to pay an $81,837 bill from a campaign event he held at the Tucson Convention Center in 2016.
Nice. Thanks!
Certainly! It was a fun mini-mystery to solve.
There was a bunch of old articles talking about how Trump and Bernie owed the cops money, Trump owing considerably more due to a bigger crowd. Once I found out who the 45k was owed to, that made a quick job of getting the reason why.
It must have been another article than the one I shared that said all the money was for the cops because the convention center required a credit card for the deposit, so they could bill the candidates.
76 cops for 7,000 people seems excessive to me though for a Bernie rally.
That’s $592 per cop, which sounds about right for 4 hours and $150/hr overtime pay. Yes, that’s what cops get paid in a lot of places.
I meant more that sounds like a high number of police for a Bernie rally. I didn’t think they required so much reigning in.
Some googling and skimming a Seattle city guide to event policing tells me 1-2 police per 1000 attendees is normal, and the rate you worked out sounds about right also.
It’s a huge document, over 100 pages, but just skimming it was quite enlightening.
I agree that it’s a large number of cops for a Bernie rally (although it’s the right amount if their real job was intimidating Bernie liberals rather than providing actual security). I was just pointing out how much OT money cops make for that sort of gig.
…four police officers could handle a bernie rally; the other seventy-two were probably to manage the fascists trolling for trouble outside…
Uh, the other seventy-two were the fascists trolling for trouble outside …