Suppressing Dissent at the Olympic Games: "Total Policing" in London
Submitted on August 8, 2012
By JULES BOYKOFF - Counterpunch
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the London riots. In the wake of last summer’s destruction and the flurry of finger-pointing about who was to blame, London’s Metropolitan Police launched what they called “Total Policing.” A peculiar brew of creepy branding and wishful thinking, “Total Policing” has always been freighted with fuzziness — no one’s quite sure what it really means.
