Anonymous hacks cops coordinating Occupy evictions - PERF goes down

[EFerrari]

Anonymous hacks cops coordinating Occupy evictions - PERF goes down

Sunday, Anonymous hacktivists assaulted PERF because of their alleged involvement in coordinating police crackdowns on Occupy protests across the country.
Anonymous hacktivists assaulted PERF, the Police Executive Research Forum, by taking down their website and releasing the private information of Sherwin B. "Chuck" Wexler - Executive Director at PERF.

PERF is a private but extremely influential national, non-governmental organization with close ties to law enforcement agencies across the country, as well as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The group allegedly orchestrated and coordinated the sometimes brutal police crack down on Occupy Wall Street, and other Occupy movements across the country.

After several news organizations identified PERF as being responsible for advising and coordinating the police crackdowns resulting in Occupy evictions and other brutalities, the hivemind of the nebulous and notorious international Internet collective known as Anonymous began to swarm, and sting.

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[BlueToTheBone]

1. Thank the god/desses for Anonymous! n/t

[roguevalley]

11. I agree, BlueToTheBone. I love them.

[BlueToTheBone]

30. Almost gives you hope, doesn't it?

Even as they take them away, more come behind and throw more cogs in the wheels of the machine. It's all so guerrilla. The next wave after the 60s. We used mimeograph machines! :rofl:

[grasswire]

2. !!!!!!!!!

Maybe the PERFs think they are going to hide identities, with the web site down. Fortunately, Willy T captured the board of directors and the staff members right here on DU yesterday.

[greyl]

3. The site comes and goes.

It was up a few minutes ago, down now.

edit: www.policeforum.org

[femrap]

29. I didn't even know that

there was some Private Company that overlooks Police/Crime. How much of their budget comes from Gov't Grants????

And why is every young person I meet studying 'Criminal Justice' lately?? Maybe just an anomaly....seems spooky and weird. Guess that's where the 'jobs' are. How very sad.

Love you, Anonymous! Keep at it!

[WillyT]

4. K & R !!!

:bounce:

:kick:

[Tsiyu]

5. Loved the tweets at the end of the article

and love the statement "You should have expected us."

Makes me so happy I can't tell you. :bounce:

[defendandprotect]

38. +1 --

[hootinholler]

6. Hmmmm

Kinda the UniFawkes treatment.

[Modern_Matthew]

7. WOOHOO! nt

[tabatha]

8. Yes !!!

[kestrel91316]

9. Anonymous is becoming seriously awesome!!

[truedelphi]

58. Truly it is. It is almost as though WIkileaks and anonymous are the

Founding Fathers of the new movement of People Power.

[unionworks]

10. take that you pricks k&r n/t

[Tuesday_Morning]

12. Bravo!!!

:toast:

[woo me with science]

13. We love you, Anonymous! nt

[Douglas Carpenter]

14. good for them!!

[bengalherder]

15. Stuck their dicks in a hornet's nest, they did..... n/t

[coyote]

16. Statement from PERF:

Over the last few days, the Police Executive Research Forum has been the subject of several false articles and blog postings alleging that we have been coordinating police crackdowns on Occupy protests. This is not true. PERF conducted two conference calls for the sole purpose of allowing police chiefs to compare notes about their experiences with “Occupy” protests. The last conference call was held on November 4—more than two weeks ago.

PERF urges everyone who wishes to obtain an accurate view of PERF’s work to read a report that we released in July 2011 called “Managing Major Events: Best Practices from the Field.” This report, which is available on our website at http://www.policeforum.org/dotAsset/1491727.pdf, summarizes the views of police leaders who participated in a PERF conference in November 2010 to discuss issues related to major events such as large-scale protests. See especially the following:

--Chapter 2, titled “A ‘Softer’ Approach to Crowd Management: The Vancouver Model,” offers this advice: “Be proactive by reaching out to the public or influential community groups beforehand to inform them of your planned activities during an event…. Use the ‘meet and greet’ strategy. Engage the crowd in a friendly, non-confrontational manner….Most protesters are peaceful; don’t allow a small group of instigators to provoke an aggressive response from officers.”

--Chapter 7, titled “Preparing for Protesters at Major Events,” includes this recommendation: “When dealing with law-breaking protesters, don’t forget that thousands of nonviolent protesters are merely exercising their First Amendment rights. So the police must differentiate the lawbreaking protesters from those who are peaceful.”

more...
http://www.policeforum.org/home/


My question is, why would a private non-government organization be conducting any conference call between police chiefs?

[unionworks]

17. exactly the point

I would like to know a lot more about this organization, its funding, its agenda. Becaause it almost sounds like a form of "shadow government" of police that leaves civilian control OUT OF THE LOOP.:wtf:

[LiberalEsto]

18. You have to wonder if the Koch-roaches

or their numerous foundations support PERF

[The Doctor.]

51. ties;

Barbara O'brien. ALEC
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Public_Safety_and_Elections_Task_Force

Chuck Wexler
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Homeland_Security_Advisory_Council

Motorola http://anoncorpwatch.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/motorola-sponsors-group-responsible-for-coordinating-attacks-on-occupy-wall-street/

[Plucketeer]

32. PERF..

The "Grover Norquist" of police forces.

Here's to Anonymous' continued successes!

[blackspade]

24. The perf statement is double speak.

First paragraph says it all.

[Lasher]

61. Yep. If that's not coordination I don't know what is.

Straight from the pigsty.

[AllyCat]

27. That was my thought. Why did they need to do this? Why couldn't the POs just conference

with each other? Oh, because they needed marching orders from these clowns on how to tear things down when legal means aren't enough.

[CoffeeCat]

31. Wow--Do they think we are stupid?

Look at the fluff they've asked us to read---as evidence that they are not advising police about OWS
crackdowns.

They cite Chapter 2 "A 'Softer' Approach to Crowd Management". This is the exact opposite of what the
police have been doing since these conference-call meetings.

The police have been dressed like stormtrooopers and they've had a reptilian approach to the protesters--barely
reacting at all to them--unless they're hitting them with batons or pepper spraying them.

This retort is simply ridiculous because what they suggest that they've been telling the police to do--is the
exact opposite of how the police have been behaving.

NONSENSE ON STEROIDS!

[broiles]

42. Sue them!

for conspiracy to deprive protesters of civil rights and incitement to cause bodily harm. Since they are non-governmental it gets around the sovereign immunity that the police will plea.

[ThoughtCriminal]

44. Someone should ask PERF

Why their members are obviously not following the advice from "Chapter 2" and "Chapter 7"

I have a feeling that those are for "Public consumption" only.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

52. Chapter 9, How to Tazer and pepper spray without

being caught on video.

[sabrina 1]

60. On whose authority are the acting? Where are the getting

their funds and who asked them for their advice? And if they did not order the coordinated crackdowns, who did? Because we know someone did.

This is disturbing, to have such an organization operating in the shadows, and without government oversight, being consulted by the country's police depts.

[qb]

19. Thank you Anonymous

[Fawke Em]

20. All I can say is:

HA HA!!

[xchrom]

21. Recommend

[BiggJawn]

22. had me going for a second...

PERF also stands for Public Employees Retirement Fund, the only thing standing between eating and starvation when I'm no longer able to work. (retire? you're joking, yes?)

Good on Anonymous!

[bvar22]

23. The Top Law Enforcement Officer of the Nation...

..SHOULD direct the Justice Department to investigate PERF on suspicion of Conspiracy to deprive US Citizens of their Civil Rights,
among other things.
I believe they could find enough evidence to prosecute.


Private Shadow Organizations "coordinating" Law Enforcement in the US is NOT OK.
These types of organizations should be STOMPED off the map of our country with extreme prejudice.
A very graphic public example needs to be made, and quickly.
This is VERY serious.

In this case, silence means endorsement.




You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
Solidarity99!
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[Aerows]

25. Agree wholeheartedly

This is very serious, and a very dangerous precedent.

[unionworks]

40. I do wish

That would happen. But we both know it won't with this administration.we are completely on our own.

[AllyCat]

26. Thank you Anonymous!

[FreeBillClinton]

28. Does illegal hacking help the OWS movement?

Functionally, all Anonymous did was take down a website for a few hours. I doubt it was a major impediment to the PERF organization.

So how exactly does it help the OWS movement to be associated with illegal hacking?

[annabanana]

37. It certain bring attention to what seems to be a very shady outfit.

Why is an NGO acting as a coordinator between local police departments and DHS?

[concord]

48. Exactly! Not only that, they provoked a response

Excellent job Anonymous!!!

[Tsiyu]

41. this time, a few hours, next time?

As for rationale, it lets those who feel they are bulletproof know that

A) They are being watched and

B) They are as vulnerable as the public on which they prey

These are greedy SOB's who want it all at the expense of your rights and mine. They have no business ingratiating themselves into public policy.


WE pay for police. WE should determine the policy at protests, in accordance with our Constitution, not inaccordance with some leeches' best interests.


Edit because I can't seem to spell Constitution lol

[Selatius]

55. No more than setting up tents/camping without a "permit" from the city. nt

[EFerrari]

66. Why are you more interested in the illegality of hacking

than the illegality of colluding to deprive Americans of their rights, also illegal? That is exactly the mindset that proves we need out of the box thinking that #OWS is bringing to our discourse. One set of rules for the people, another set of rules for the 1% and it's not even questioned. We're sheep, basically, except we probably don't taste as good with mint sauce.

[CoffeeCat]

33. Question about PERF...

Is this a consulting agency, with people giving advice to law enforcement?

Or...does PERF have their own officers that they send out to work with local law enforcement to
ensure that they heavy-handed tactics are used?

One thing I noticed during the UC Davis incident--is how some of those police officers looked
frightened and very unsure of themselves. There were a couple of them who actually pointed
their guns into the crowd, with a look of total discombobulation on their faces.

This PERF nonsense could explain some of that. If you've got local law enforcement being
advised by PERF and Homeland Security to use heavy-handed, militant Gestapo tactics against
US citizens--I can imagine that many local police officers aren't emotionally or physically
equipped or prepared to behave that way.

There are many good police officers out there. Yes, there are bad apples, and many who
would love to have a reason to go all militant on a bunch of OWS supporters--but many
are not like that.

If anyone knows if PERF plays only a consultancy role or if they send out their people
to work with local law enforcement--it would be interesting to learn more.

[grasswire]

35. we don't know the answer to that

From a cursory examination of the site the other day, I saw that PERF does screening of candidates for police chief jobs at local law enforcement, and recommendations for those jobs.

That in itself gives PERF an opportunity to stack America's top cop jobs with ideologues.

Absolutely frightening. More investigative reporting is needed.

[EFerrari]

46. Their website says they run seminars and also do conference calls.

They're in Washington and I doubt they had people at Davis. But it may be that UC police at Davis called in some rent-a-cops.

[dixiegrrrrl]

65. Says they do studies, too.

Found some of .."Conducted Energy Devices (CED)"
their euphemisms for tasers, sounds like.
What a nice harmless term....Conducted Energy Device....

[valerief]

34. Bravo, Anonymous!

:applause:

[Desertrose]

36. Good!! Good for Anonymous!! Thank you!!

Ha!!

[Lunabelle]

39. Good for anonymous!

The people are under attack.

[Tsiyu]

43. Some stuff on PERF

http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/more-police-departments-collusion-defense-1-whos-organization-coordinating-those-c

"An earlier PERF guide, Police Management of Mass Demonstrations, advocates the use of embedded media to control police messages, the use of undercover cops to infiltrate protest groups, the use and pitfalls of preemptive mass arrest, an examination of the use of less-than-lethal crowd control weapons, and general discussion weighing the use of force in crowd control."

http://questionall.tumblr.com/post/13029281304/the-cop-group-coordinating-the-occupy-crackdowns-san

Chairing PERF’s board of directors is Philadelphia Police Commissioner and former Washington D.C. Metro Police Chief Charles Ramsey, who was responsible for coordinating the police response to protests against international banking institutions including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Those protests, and Ramsey’s response to massive anti-war demonstrations in Washington DC in the lead up the the Iraq War, often resulted in preemptive mass arrest of participants that were later deemed to be unconstitutional.

Ramsey’s predecessor as organization chair is former Philadelphia Police Commissioner and former Miami Police Chief John Timoney, who is responsible for the so called “Miami Model,” coined after the police crackdown on the 2003 Free Trade Agreement of the Americas protest.
The police response to protesters in Miami lead to hundreds of injuries to protesters. The ACLU won multiple suits against the Miami P.D. over abuse to protesters and free speech concerns.

Prior to the 2003 protest, Timoney was quoted as saying that the FTAA was “the first big event for homeland security … the first real realistic run-through to see how it would work.”

[Blue Owl]

45. Those sick fuck perferts

can suck my balls.

[aggiesal]

47. The modern day ZORRO! n/t

[sabrina 1]

49. I love Anonymous!

[Kaleko]

57. Anonymous responds

with a love bomb.



Ask, and ye shall receive.

[sabrina 1]

59. Lol, those actually are 'humanitarian bombs'

And I love them ... :-)

[unionworks]

50. Good info above

but it needs to go deeper. Need to know more about the political activities/affiliations of these dirtbags, see if someone can connect the dots. They need maximum exposure.

[NorthCarolina]

53. K&R

[LWolf]

54. GOOD. nt

[Sub Atomic]

56. Oh my. A full listing of staff and their contact emails.

http://policeforum.org/about-us/staff_directory.dot

I wouldn't want anyone with dishonorable motives to get ahold of this!

:gasp:

[dixiegrrrrl]

64. and a list of their board of directors!

http://policeforum.org/about-us/board-of-directors.dot

[lonestarnot]

62. Tee hee.

:evilgrin:

[dixiegrrrrl]

63. All I have to say is..............

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: