Earlier this year while the Tampa City Council was approving requests from the Tampa Police Department regarding high security at the RNC, one city council member thought it was too much.
"We spent $25 million (on equipment) and made two arrests. I think that says it all," said Mary Mulhern on Wednesday afternoon.
Part of that low number was due to the de-escalation techniques employed by the TPD and the other law enforcement agencies under its control. But a bigger factor was the small number of activists who demonstrated. Though estimates of 15,000 protesters appeared inflated, nobody predicted that only 2,000 activists would attend.
