It turns out that deploying a militarized police response to protesters is expensive.

[kpete]

The state has budgeted $3.455 million this year to pay expenses that any state agency incurred during an emergency declared by the governor, in addition to $4 million for emergency duties of the Missouri National Guard.

St. Louis County so far has spent about $1 million in police overtime responding to Ferguson, Chief Operating Officer Garry Earls said. That amount includes about $100,000 a day for the first nine days after the shooting.


“All this workforce out there had to be fed,” he said. “We used up all of our tear gas and pepper spray.”


MORE:
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_8ada1a79-fc18-509b-884e-4932b8d9a613.html?mobile_touch=true
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/28/1325407/-Overzealous-police-response-in-Ferguson-expected-to-cost-state-millions

[libodem]

1. boo hoo

[NYC_SKP]

2. Emergency? Since when is corruption and outright fucking up an emergency?

It happens every day in St. Louis County.

Heaven forbid a real emergency emerges.

[underpants]

3. Wow what a genius. Let the other side know when you are out of ammo

Other side meaning the protestors

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. We used up all of our tear gas and pepper spray. . .

I wonder if he get the ironic nature of that statement.

With all apologies to Richard the 1st, The Police ain't here to preserve disorder, the police is here to create disorder.

[logosoco]

5. It's okay. They can just get busy writing tickets

To minorities and poor people. I would add a sarcasm tag but it's true.

[Iggo]

6. Yeah but War Boners.

[KurtNYC]

7. Used up all their tear gas? So did Egypt and Turkey

Turkey

TURKEY – The National Police had bought 150,000 tear gas cartridges in 2013 according to its annual plan. However, during the ‘Gezi Park Protests’ which started in Istanbul on May 31 and spread to 77 provinces across Turkey, riot police used 130,000 cartridges. The amount of tear gas used over the period of 20 days was more than the amount used in 20 European countries in entire 2012.
...
Although, tear gas is prices may vary per deal basis, they cost approximately $40 a cartridge. According to this the police force will spend $ 309,000,000 on TOMAs and $ 4,000,000 on tear gas and exceed its budget by $ 313,000,000.

http://the-dissentient.com/2013/06/21/the-police-cant-get-enough-gas-bombs/

Egypt

The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 tear-gas canisters to Egypt’s interior ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Del., on March 14 aboard the SS Jamestown and has just arrived the port of Suez. They cost the Egyptian government just under US$2.5 million.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/345528/140000-canisters-us-tear-gas-egypt-s-morsi-daniel-pipes

Wouldn't it be cheaper to talk to people?

[bluesbassman]

8. And they was using up all kinds of cop equipment...

that they had hanging around the police officer's station. They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography.

Expensive business, the suppression of civil liberties.