16,000 of the expected 20,000+ Officers marching today from all over the UK will be wearing black hats to represent what a 20% cut in the force would look like – Cuts in Police Services are not the only reason for the march today. Privatization is also a major concern, and is on the table as a “cost cutting” option now, what this means is that the entire force will be sold off to be run by the highest bidder. Like this one, a private corporation based in Texas, who oversees operations at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. All this topped …

Occupy Police is calling out all those with Occupy London, support the Police March in London today

This is a follow up from our previous post The Last Call To Attention from an Officer in London -

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The Last Stand

I never thought that The Last Call To Attention would strike such a chord but, it has.

So now we, together; must take one final stand.

Resignation.

Meaning, amongst other things: the unresisting, acceptance of something as inescapable; submission. To accept and put up …

Alright, the post title is a little out there, but you all know the type, the person who just can’t handle life without using the police to express their need to have absolute control over everything in the most overzealous way possible. The type of person who calls police because “my husband or wife disagrees with me” or “my kid won’t stop crying” or “the cashier at wherever just gave me a dirty look” The type that calls for anything and everything, and yes, in most cases the police must respond and act as if they care, and in some …

A Positive Police Campaign By Detective Kitty | Lets face it, the public at large doesn’t really care what we get paid as long as we do our jobs properly. Granted there are many who would see Police paid minimum wage, there are others who think we are underpaid, but generally people don’t know what we do unless they are used to us knocking on their door for some reason.

So what do we do for a living?

Constable Chaos tells us a story of the “Q word”, and the superstitions we have around the use of said word.  It’s a …

Isn’t enough, enough?

We need to have a conversation with our police.

We need to tell them we have high expectations. Then help them meet those expectations.

For too long now, the conduct of many of our nation’s police departments have been unacceptable. This unacceptable conduct has ranged from thwarting protesters, pepper-spraying non-violent demonstrators, questionable stopping and frisking, racial profiling, tracking American Muslims, quickly resorting to physical force when trying to solve a problem, and dishonesty (both personally and organizationally). I think it’s time we started a conversation with our nation’s police and let them know our expectations.

I spent …

One protesters point of view -

By MARIANNE HOYNES

NEW YORK – Today, I Occupied the May Day International General Strike of Occupy Wall Street. The few thousand Occupiers at Bryant Park midtown, were made up of union workers, disappointed conservatives, disillusioned liberals, veterans of wars past and present, those fighting still for equal access to affordable health care and students who cannot get jobs or pay off their student loans. Protest was almost a misnomer today, because the park was filled with musicians beating their percussion instruments, blowing horns,chanting and singing, with many people swaying to the beat of …

National Liaison Assistance

Occupy Police wishes to establish ourselves as a National liaison between police departments and occupations in order to effectively communicate occupation events, marches, and march routes. We wish to assist with this for many reasons, one being  that the lack of liaison communiques can rapidly bring chaos to both sides, as we’ve seen. Lack of preparedness on the side of departments, can lead to on edge officers who are forced to view occupy as a “situation” needing to be dealt with as opposed to an event, or parade even, which would need to be policed and kept …

I often tell my son (and mean it) that he can be absolutely anything he wants. He can do anything if he is prepared to work hard. To sacrifice and go after his goal with a passion. He wants to be a footballer. He could be. But he will have to spend hours every day practicing when his friends are out on the town. He ‘can’ do it. But will he? I don’t know. He ‘can’ be an astronaut. He will have to work really hard at those Science subjects he’s not too keen on and do lots of extra …

How can you privatize Law Enforcement.. Is everything up for sale? I mean, some of you may dream of owning a sports team but imagine owning the NYPD? …and renting them to the city… WTF … Here’s a question, if Blackwater patrolled your city, instead of your normal city PD would you take them seriously, would you listen to anything they said.. I know I wouldn’t

Police privatisation: we can’t let profit take over

To hand criminal investigations and street patrols to private firms would destroy confidence in the police

Following Article Via  John Prescott  guardian.co.uk