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…