The Cop Group Coordinating the Occupy Crackdowns
Submitted on November 20, 2011
By Shawn Gaynor - November 18, 2011
...[A] little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the [Occupy] encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and discuss response to the Occupy movement.
