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If I take as a given that his security arrangements are a necessary evil, it is reasonable to me that his driver do certain basic things to make the job of someone trying to hurt the mayor more difficult. I have no more issue with this than I would with the mayor wearing a ballistic vest despite the fact that the average citizen is not allowed to.
If the question is the risk-benefit analysis of the tactics used, that would be a whole different story, but that's not what's happening here. This is like complaining that the Secret Service can walk into the White House armed while average citizens can not. Duly appointed authority figures are given powers that most of us do not have because it has been decided that they need them to do their job.
I'll concede the tactic but not the timing. Of course he's important and famous and rich and he's the Mayor of New York which is one of very few Mayoral positions that will make you nationally famous. It's good security, as it should be. Perhaps if during his impassioned plea for greater safety, he should have mentioned that there were exceptions to the rule for important people and that this should not be viewed as permission for unimportant people to do it. Then this wouldn't be news, just the same old song.