Maybe a particular student had an interview planned with admissions at a college and had no way to reschedule (parent took them, had to be back). And they would

Maybe a particular student had an interview planned with admissions at a college and had no way to reschedule (parent took them, had to be back). And they would have made a good enough impression to get admitted to the school? Shit happens. In this case it was a manhunt, but it could easily have been a highway accident, gas main break, flood or snowstorm that caused a student to miss an interview. I don't see your point. I don't care at all about sports but I can understand a child being disappointed when he is supposed to go to a game with his father on a particular evening. This has happened to my biz partner who promised to take his son to BoSox games and then had to cancel because of work. Kids gets over it. I don't think you can assume that the employees at the colo would agree to show up just like that, that they wouldn't have pressure to not go (from spouses) The same pressure could have been applied if the bomber wasn't caught, although over multiple days instead of just one. Is the same concentrated deployment of assets being done in cities such as Camden, Newark, Detroit with high murder rates and daily crime? As I mentioned in another post in this thread, yes you do see deployment of resources and police asking citizens to stay indoors when chasing armed suspects/gang suspects who have killed innocents. The search areas tend to be smaller and the deployment not as extreme, but then again the threats tend to be proportionally smaller (1-2 guys with handguns vs 1-2 guys with automatic weapons and explosives). I live in a high-crime city and have seen it happen first hand.