Ask HN: Why were so many security details at this week's S.F. Twilio convention?

[levimaes]

I couldn't swing a dead cat without incurring an assault on any which number of the unsettling, no unserious business looking peace officers that we're swarming city hall plaza yesterday. They even swept out the peddler and vagrant class, effective almost all evening. What gives? It's not like a data center full or our APIs -- just conference goers conferring! Were we, in tech infrastructures, recently infiltrated or something or whatever; is this Us, the US, being extra vigilant about maybe the last decade's 'super-leaks'?

[MetalGuru]

I couldn't swing a dead cat without incurring an assault on any which number of the unsettling, no unserious business looking peace officers that we're swarming city hall plaza yesterday

An assault? Swing a dead cat? What are you talking about? I can't even comprehend what you're trying to say.

[nodesocket]

Because if security was not there you'd have a serious security and safety issue in terms of the homeless and peddlers. In fact, it's been reported that some companies refuse to do conferences in downtown SF any more. See https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-08/land-living-dead-i...

[blissofbeing]

Because it's SF?