I think at the start you couldn't say that because you have to assume it's going to take some time to put together a plan of this nature; it's going to require some logistical challenges to bring people from coast to coast—municipal police forces and so on—and put them up. There was no question that by the beginning of the second weekend, a lot of us—me included—were wondering, why is this taking so long? This should have been done when the numbers dropped in the middle of the week, but which then came back up on weekends. That happened, obviously, three weekends in a row.
I think there was a general lack of communication and frustration. In fairness, I'm not prepared to paint every police officer with the same brush. The women and men who were on the front lines in miserable conditions, being spat upon, yelled at and so on, were doing the best they could and I'm proud of their efforts. Clearly, there were arguments at the higher level of policing, where there were allegations of lack of confidence, planning and so on.