Ok, we can play quote a % game

The Police Report for the Downtown District of Savannah shows
a 15 % increase in violent crimes (YTD 2011 over YTD 2010).

Week ending 11/5/11 Violent Crimes up 15%
---------------Homicide----Rape---Robbery---Assaults-----Total
YTD 2011---------6---------6---------113---------56---------191
YTD 2010---------4---------3----------12---------69---------165

Did the 2-day Occupy Savannah event cause this 15% increase in violent crime ?
Of course not.

With respect to your link to PDX, it is just such a headline that I have been saying is misleading.
That report covers PDX Police Districts 832, 840 and 850.
These are shown in the pic below.
Those three areas make up the entire downtown Portand business district, inside the freeways.

Everyone can interpret the map as they please, but it's my opinion that
if Occupy Portland caused such an increase,
it would surely appear as a different pattern on the map above,
centered on the encampment area.

The number for District # 830 only could be more informative.
Although there were 0 "trespass" cases in 2010, I'm reasonably sure
the 37 cases in 2011 cases are connected to Occupy PDX.
Those are almost half of the total (90) used to get the 18%

Merc, my hope is that you're take another look at these links,
and maybe change your views a bit.... Sure, that'll happen ! :right:
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nice :)

I've been up since 5:30 watching the Occupy Portland coverage on TV.
It's was reported that the police sent a few officers into the encampment
at midnight, telling the people to leave the park.
The police lined up in riot gear in the crosswalk of east-west Madison St.
The crowd was in the street of north-south 3rd Ave.

This apparently went on from midnight until 6 am,
when the police told the crowd to get back on the sidewalk
and apparently gave permission to go back into the park !

Within just a few minutes, 3rd Ave was clear.
A crew with buckets from the crowd walked along the street picking up debris.
The crowd began laughing and chanting to a drumbeat.
"WHO'S BLOCKING THE STREET NOW "

After about 20 minutes, the police were still in the line across Madison.
Protesters on bicycles started riding up 3rd Ave along with a few cars.
Then a larger number of bicyclists came down Madison across 3rd to the police line.
They obeyed the traffic signals... and the police line broke away and they proceeded on down Madison.
As the police line broke up, the crowd started cheering and chanting:
"YOU'RE PART OF THE 99 PERCENT"

One officer was injured in the leg during the night, taken away in an ambulance.
Police Lt King did an on-mic interview saying "He is recovering".
All in all, the whole thing seems to have been non-violent.
A few protesters were arrested during the night.

The odd thing is the crowds have gone back into the city park.
Some of the barriers in the park are being taken down
Lt King spoke about this saying "Eventually they will go home"

It's 6:45 and the area seems crowded, but peaceful.
.

At 7:00 am, the media are interviewing themselves.

The protestors have signs and are tweeting "VICTORY"
The Mayor is thanking the police for their service
Crews from Occupy PDX are putting trash into dumpsters
Traffic is flowing on the streets.

The best descriptive I've heard is the atmosphere is "relaxed"

Thanks for the perspective, lamp. :)

A greater amount of policing of the Occupy area leads to a greater amount of crime outside the Occupy area. Here's an Open Letter from the Oakland cops to Occupy Oakland explaining why Occupy Oakland is bad for Oakland.

As you watched a massive section of the Portland police force trying to oust protesters this morning, where were those cops not working? What happened to the response time for crimes happening outside those districts? Or were the police paid overtime for this effort?

"And you MUST change your views because it is NOT POSSIBLE that I am wrong."

But maybe the answer to that problem is for the police to stop focusing so heavily on the relatively peaceful camp of protestors, and instead go clean up crime in the rest of the city.

It's not peaceful. We just want it to be because that's the narrative.

UT, I invite you to watch the news media on today's developments in PDX.

If I have misrepresented these events in PDX, I'll apologize to everyone.

You misunderstand me sir

IN MY OPINION
 

The 'occupancy' movement seems to be making a shift from the rather muddled agenda of pouting about debbil rich-folks to 'let's hunker down 'here' because we can and want to'.

That is: 'occupancy' seems less and less about 'we are the 99%' and more and more about 'I wanna sit, stand, squat, 'here', so, make me move'.

Gimme gimme gimme. That's all I hear from them. They stand there holding their hands out, expecting someone to just plop stuff in it.

No, I'm not talking about the poor, or the rapidly disappearing middle class, but the put-upon and downtrodden millionaires.


http://www.rollcall.com/news/coburn_...-210282-1.html

Well I did enjoy watching them getting kicked out at 1 am in the morning. Does that count?

The only 1% these fools should be protesting against are the less than 1% that are members of Congress, past and present.

Boortz Rocks.

Boortz