{"id":837,"date":"2006-03-17T08:12:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/lets_flip_the_track_bring_the_old_school_back_--_this_is_how_we_do_it.html"},"modified":"2006-03-17T08:12:46","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T16:12:46","slug":"lets_flip_the_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/lets_flip_the_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Flip The Track, Bring The Old School Back &#8212; This Is How We Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Proactive&#8221; arrests and psy-ops techniques are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/03\/17\/nyregion\/17police.html?ex=1300251600&#038;en=414d451f549f8bac&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">just two of the ways the New York Police Department keeps us safe from animal-rights protesters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In five internal reports made public yesterday as part of a lawsuit, New York City police commanders candidly discuss how they had successfully used &#8220;proactive arrests,&#8221; covert surveillance and psychological tactics at political demonstrations in 2002, and recommend that those approaches be employed at future gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most effective strategies, one police captain wrote, was the seizure of demonstrators on Fifth Avenue who were described as &#8220;obviously potential rioters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The reports also made clear what the police have yet to discuss publicly: that the department uses undercover officers to infiltrate political gatherings and monitor behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, one of the documents &#8212; a draft report from the department&#8217;s Disorder Control Unit &#8212; proposed in blunt terms the resumption of a covert tactic that had been disavowed by the city and the federal government 30 years earlier. Under the heading of recommendations, the draft suggested, &#8220;Utilize undercover officers to distribute misinformation within the crowds.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Proactive&#8221; arrests and psy-ops techniques are just two of the ways the New York Police Department keeps us safe from animal-rights protesters: In five internal reports made public yesterday as part of a lawsuit, New York City police commanders candidly discuss how they had successfully used &#8220;proactive arrests,&#8221; covert surveillance and psychological tactics at political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}