Because Maine has yet to post precinct-by-precinct or county-by-county results, it is hard to say definitively whether these caucuses could have altered the winner of race.
But in two bars frequented by police officers and at posts and precinct station houses in Manhattan and in Brooklyn, officers on duty and off had a more complicated view.
(Indeed, anyone who has observed childrearing in such post-traditional precincts as the New Yorker's readership knows that they care for them with an obsessive attention unparalleled in human history).
Their work led to their being characterized as "professional agitators" on a Police Department flier posted at the 30th Precinct station house in Harlem.
The police said that Mr. Smalls was well known to officers in Arverne, and that his picture had been posted in the 100th Precinct station house, where the officers who confronted him Saturday are assigned.
Jessup's speech reëntered the limelight unexpectedly last week, when the N.Y.P.D. Midtown South Precinct posted it on Twitter.
Then, in the fall of 2001, during the spate of hate crimes against Muslims that followed 9/11, the 28th Precinct posted officers outside his and other mosques.
When the polls close, the results should be printed out and posted at each precinct and should remain there for at least one day to protect against alterations in the totals during transmission to the central office.
And that should come as no surprise, because as Mr. Bush goes through a Republican primary process in which his ultimate victory seems almost foreordained, his greatest challenge is arguably not the loftiness of the numbers he posts in the precinct caucuses here on Monday or even his fate in New Hampshire, a state he could lose.
She gained some local fame in New York City last year when the 30th Precinct posted a picture of her and her partner, Matthew Swaye, on the station house walls.
"Last night 2 white supremacists, one carrying a pistol, showed up to our peaceful protest at the 4th precinct," the post said.
