one the thing people outside of NYC don't understand about NYC is that the NYPD can and regularly does deploy hundreds of pigs to *whatever* they want on a whim
even a city as big as Los Angeles only has ≈20,000 between LAPD and LASD combined. NYPD has over 36,000
that's more than three Chicago PD's…
that's twenty-five Miami PD's…
that's forty-five Portland Police Bureau's