It wasnt heavily armed & riot police deployments that surprised me it was their deployment in what seemed like fairly quiet upper middle class neighborhoods. I

It wasnt heavily armed & riot police deployments that surprised me it was their deployment in what seemed like fairly quiet upper middle class neighborhoods. I only saw that once before - in altamira caracas. Ive seen plenty of armed police in Italy but they were focused in highly trafficked city centre/touristy areas. Italy seems pretty excessively militarized but the pattern of deployment is normal.