SWR (public TV news for the SW of Germany, to include the Pfalz) brought up this odd topic.
So this group of neo-Nazis decided to hold a protest in Mainz this past Saturday. Those who showed up? 28.
I'm not going to get into a debate about neo-Nazism, or the logical reasoning for frustrations, or any validity for protesting.
The city felt they needed to ensure safety. So they called in the police to supervise and 'manage' the protest. Number of man-hours involved for this two to three hour protest? Well....4,000 police man-hours.
Cost factor? 300,000 Euro.
Yes, for one protest....for 28 protest folks....a cost of 300,000.
The police 'rate' for this kind of affair? Roughly 75 Euro per hour....per guy.
It's a fair amount of money, and you just sit and imagine.....if the 28 folks did this monthly....it'd be a drain on city funds of about 3.6-million Euro.
I sat and pondered over this. If you'd gone to the 28, and just said....maybe you'd stay home....if we gave you each 3,000 Euro? Would that be an enhancement deal....saving more than half the funding....talking them out of the protest?
I'm pretty sure, for most of these working-class protest folks, if you just offered a pallet of beer and 300 Euro each....they might have accepted that as a rational way to avoid the protest.
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