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NYPD Engaging in ‘Proactive’ Protester Arrests

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Posted on Mar 17, 2006
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Horse-mounted NYPD officers exercise crowd control maneuvers during a 2003 antiwar rally in New York City.

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The N.Y. Times examines internal police reports in which NYPD commanders discuss their use of “proactive arrests,” covert surveillance and psychological tactics at antiwar rallies in 2002.

The country that wages preemptive war now has a city police force making “proactive” arrests.

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In five internal reports made public yesterday as part of a lawsuit, New York City police commanders candidly discuss how they had successfully used “proactive arrests,” covert surveillance and psychological tactics at political demonstrations in 2002, and recommend that those approaches be employed at future gatherings.

Among the most effective strategies, one police captain wrote, was the seizure of demonstrators on Fifth Avenue who were described as “obviously potential rioters.”

The reports provide a rare glimpse of internal police evaluations and strategies on security and free speech issues that have provoked sharp debate between city officials and political demonstrators since the Sept. 11 attack.

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By Carol Rose, March 18, 2006 at 9:27 pm #
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If we don’t do something very soon (please) then we will all be potential draftees or detainees - how much longer will Americans allow themselves to be duped?  Neither Conservative (fiscally or otherwise) or Compassionate (ask folks in the Gulf states) and now we don’t even get to have the illusion of National Security, after the TSA and Ports fiascos.....If things were really going as well as Bush, Rummy and crew keep shrilling, then why do they have to spy on us? Pre-emptively arresting citizens practicing their Constitutional rights?  Oh yeah, I forgot - we don’t have a Constitution anymore - just the Patriot Act.

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By potential "whatever", March 18, 2006 at 5:28 pm #
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I think all Americans should start wearing “Potential ..........” T Shirts.
Very honest and very true!

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