Conflict of interest. Independent Police Complaints Commission. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is a non-departmental public body in England and Wales responsible for overseeing the system for handling complaints made against police forces in England and Wales.
Freedom of Information Act (United States) The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is a federal freedom of information law that allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government.
The Act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure procedures and grants nine exemptions to the statute.[1][2] It was originally signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, despite his misgivings,[3][4] on July 4, 1966, and went into effect the following year.[5] The Federal Government's Freedom of Information Act should not be confused with the different and varying Freedom of Information Acts passed by the individual states.
Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America. Did Mayors, DHS Coordinate Occupy Attacks? The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy. US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week.
An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park. But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities? – the picture darkened. To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Naomi Klein: RT @JoshuaHol Here's my ta... This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers. Last fall, I argued that the violent reaction to Occupy and other protests around the world had to do with the 1%ers' fear of the rank and file exposing massive fraud if they ever managed get their hands on the books.
At that time, I had no evidence of this motivation beyond the fact that financial system reform and increased transparency were at the top of many protesters' list of demands. But this week presents a sick-making trove of new data that abundantly fills in this hypothesis and confirms this picture. The notion that the entire global financial system is riddled with systemic fraud – and that key players in the gatekeeper roles, both in finance and in government, including regulatory bodies, know it and choose to quietly sustain this reality – is one that would have only recently seemed like the frenzied hypothesis of tinhat-wearers, but this week's headlines make such a conclusion, sadly, inevitable.
And what, in fact, happened? And then what happened? And then what happened? Naomi Wolf’s ‘Shocking Truth’ About the ‘Occupy Crackdowns’ Offers Anything but the Truth. November 26, 2011 | Like this article?
Naomi Wolf Versus Joshua Holland: Was There a Coordinated Federal Crackdown on Occupy Wall Street? Protesters at "Occupy Wall Street" camp, Liberty SquarePhoto Credit: Sarah Jaffe December 1, 2011 |
Naomi Wolf: reception, responses, critics. When a single article is recommended on Facebook 235,000 times, tweeted nearly 7,000 times, gets close to 1,000 comments and is viewed, over three days, by approximately 1 million people, it is by any account a phenomenon.
But just what kind of phenomenon Naomi Wolf's article is, that is in dispute. For those who don't have the time to review the entire discussion thread, or look up all the external links to critiques in other blogs, we thought it would be useful to provide a "best of" summary – however slight and partial an account that might be of the reception of this influential, if controversial article. To its partisan fans – and a quick review of the discussion thread suggests that they are legion – it is a "fantastic" article, a "great" article. FBI claims it has no documents on Occupy Wall Street. FBI Claims It Does Not Have Any Documents on Occupy Wall Street Tuesday 22 November 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout | Report The Department of Homeland Security says it is processing a separate FOIA request Truthout files with the agency in October for documents pertaining to Occupy Wall Street.
FBI headquarters in Washington, DC claims it can’t find any internal documents the agency may have on the protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street, according to a letter the agency sent to Truthout in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Truthout filed a FOIA request with the FBI on October 31, seeking a wide-range of documents, including “emails, memos, audio/video, transcripts, reports, threat assessments,” in which Occupy Wall Street was discussed internally by agency officers and/or senior officials and/or any correspondence the agency had about the protest movement with local law enforcement and/or with local government officials. Police Executive Research Forum. The cop group coordinating the Occupy crackdowns. A national group with ties to Homeland Security helped paln the Occupy Oakland busts As cities across America evict encampments of the Occupy Wall Street movement, similarities of timing, talking points and tactics among major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs have led critics to wonder: Is some sort of national coordination going on?
The White House says there’s no federal oversight. Speaking November 15 aboard Air Force One, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said “The president’s position is that obviously every municipality has to make its own decisions about how to handle these issues.” Confirmed: Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) coordinating Occupy raids The White House says there’s no federal"
Who is Bill Bratton? In case any of you have forgotten, from The Daily Telegraph of August 10, 2011: In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Bill Bratton, the former New York police chief, said many young people, especially gang members, had been “emboldened” by over-cautious policing tactics and lenient sentencing policies.
Losing public confidence in its ability to provide security — through force if necessary — created “incredible difficulty” for a police force, he said.To be effective, a police force should have “a lot of arrows in the quiver,” said Mr Bratton, advocating a doctrine of “escalating force” where weapons including rubber bullets, Tasers, pepper spray and water cannon were all available to commanders. Sound familiar? Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force Amidst the New Military Urbanism. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, a number of questions have been raised about how much cities across the country have coordinated their actions against Occupy Wall Street.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan recently admitted in an interview with the BBC that she and leaders participated in a conference call. MAYOR JEAN QUAN: I was recently on a conference call of 18 cities across the country who had the same situation, where what had started as a political movement and a political encampment ended up being an encampment that was no longer in control of the people who started them. And what I think you’re starting to see is that the Occupy movement is looking for more stability. AMY GOODMAN: The conference calls were organized by the Police Executive Research Forum, a national police group. Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street. As Seattle police chief in 1999, my disastrous response to the WTO protests should have been a cautionary tale. Yet our police forces have only become more militarized. A man sits in front of a police line at City Hall during an anti-Wall Street protest in Oakland, California, October 25, 2011.
Norm Stamper. Norman Harvey Stamper is an American former chief of police and writer.[1] Stamper is known for his role as Chief of the Seattle Police Department responsible for Seattle's response to the protests of the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which eventually led to his resignation.[2] Stamper has expressed regret about his decisions at the time. When discussing the use of chemical agents such as tear gas Norm Stamper declared it was a mistake and said "The chief in me should have said, 'For the greater good, we ought not to have brought those chemical agents out. OccupyMarines_interview_20minVersion. Image BkNq. (pdf) Managing Major Events:Best Practices from the Field. Police crackdowns on Occupy camps are real threat. Around California and all over the country, we have been told that Occupy encampments must come down because of "health and safety concerns.
" But all around the country, we have seen the police take down these encampments with an overzealous use of pepper spray, tear gas and flash-bang grenades. A Defense of Dreaming in Public. A guest post from my friend Christopher Miller. Exclusive: Homeland Security Kept Tabs on Occupy Wall Street. FBI Documents Reveal Secret Nationwide Occupy Monitoring. Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy. DN! FBI vs. Occupy: Secret Docs Reveal "Counterterrorism" Monitoring of OWS from Its Earliest Days. FBI Claims It Does Not Have Any Documents on Occupy Wall Street. Domestic Security Alliance Council. Banks Deeply Involved in FBI-Coordinated Suppression of “Terrorist” Occupy Wall Street. (pdf) Dissent or Terror. Spying on Occupy Activists. (Editor’s Note: This article is derived from research and writing conducted by Beau Hodai, published by DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy in the report “Dissent or Terror: How the Nation’s Counter Terrorism Apparatus, in Partnership with Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.” )
The Global Intelligence Files - Release List. How To Win The Media War Against Grassroots Activists: Stratfor's Strategies. (AP/Cassandra Vinograd) An Open Letter to The Occupy Wall Street Movement: You Were Right All Along. Torin Monahan. BrucatoBen : Torin Monahan presents on DHS... BrucatoBen : Torin Monahan's in-depth study... Methods. BrucatoBen : @OccupyWallStNYC @SSN_Barcelona... ACTIC occupy phoenix. BrucatoBen : @OccupyWallStNYC @SSN_Barcelona... DHS , Fusion Centres and occupy. Occupy monitoring and public trust. Fusion centre monitoring. BrucatoBen : @OccupyWallStNYC @SSN_Barcelona... BrucatoBen : @OccupyWallStNYC @SSN_Barcelona... BrucatoBen : @OccupyWallStNYC @SSN_Barcelona... Conclusions. Private entities and occupy monitoring.