Police [Lieutenant Bruce] Simonetti explains, "What we're doing is very similar to what the military does, and to what Israel has been doing for many years...Every surge starts with all thirty-six officers going to the same stationthe particular station changes each timeand then, after half an hour, dividing up, so that eighteen continue on together to the next station, while the other eighteen split up and go to two different stations, and so on through four stops. 'Anybody who s bad and wants to watch to see if we're creatures of habit, we re showing them we're not...We're creating confusion." Yes, they are. I thought the sudden appearance of 36 cops on the L train was just an issue of one cop inquiring of another, "hey, Jack, where are you going? Oh, the L? Hold up, I'm coming with!" and the other 34 following suit. But it's intentional. Ah.
The surge [New Yorker]