Quote Originally Posted by noggin View Post
Look at all the new development on Woodward. Couldn't any incident be used as an excuse to riot and pillage? There are a lot of bad people around that would do it with any opportunity.
Any sizable mob that formed in downtown or Midtown would be larger than the actual area of contiguous blocks that have development. It'd be pretty easy for police to disperse mobs into nearby vacant and already burned out neighborhoods.