Cop Zone in Central Park

These pictures were all taken on the same afternoon from the running track around the Central Park Reservoir.  This stretch of the park is at least a quarter of a mile long and is ALWAYS full of police cars.  This is the very center of Central Park and our "New York Commons."  Just how did this areas become COP ZONE?   

What is the new two story warehouse type building that has blossomed with the huge words "Central Park Precinct"? 

Was a cop parking lot in the original Frederick Law Olmsted design? How can so much precious public space be given over to cars?  Has the crime record in the park really grown so much to need that amount of infrastructure? 

What are the rules for expansion into the natural areas?  What are the rules for parking cars in the park?  Many of the cars are the private cars of the police.  Do the other workers (the stone masons, the rangers, the reservoir engineers) get to part smack dab in the middle of the park when they go to work? 

What is the opinion of Commissioner Benepe about this military occupation?  What is the opinion of the Central Park Conservancy?

The Catskills Own Waco

Arkville hit the tabloids when a fugitive with a stolen van fired at a trooper who stopped him for a missing license. The trooper's vest deflected the shot, but the guy got away and fled to a house on Route 30 near Margaretville in Arkville, whose last big event was the visit of Thomas the Engine to the railroad museum. The state put out an all-alert and saw the van at a farmhouse. For hours they sprayed teargas and shots into the building. The tear gas was ignited by the shots and the house started burning. Firefighters were kept at bay. When the smoke cleared, the charred body of the fugitive was found with a rifle in his arms. Two troopers had been shot, one of whom died. Ballistics revealed that they were shot by "friendly fire". Over two hundred police cars were involved and a dozen helicopters. A dedication page in the local press listed all the different officers that took part in the action. These are a few of the armed forces of the Catskills:
NY State Troopers
DEP Police
Encon Police
Forest Rangers
Delhi Police
Roxbury Constable
Delaware County Sheriff's Department
Is the fact that all these different forces were involved the reason that they ended up shooting each other? Were they communicating with each other? With so many cops, who is in command? In the 9/11 era maybe there are just too many cops. In this case, the only people really injured were injured by "law enforcement". Oh, and a robot. They sent a robot into the house, but the fugitive was upstairs and the robot couldn't climb the steps.