Independent Study Calls Police Response To Occupy Oakland ‘Outdated, Dangerous’

Independent Study Calls Police Response To Occupy Oakland ‘Outdated, Dangerous’: An independent report (PDF) commissioned by the city of Oakland concluded that the crowd-control tactics that the Oakland Police Department used to subdue Occupy protesters last year were “outdated, dangerous, and ineffective.” This report comes on the heels of last month’s report from a different outside monitor that reached the same conclusions. In its 180-page [...]/p