Bobbie Stein Criticizes Oakland Cops for Ignoring Crowd Control Policy

San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2010 by Bobbie Stein and Rachel Lederman
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/28/EDV91EKR9F.DTL

When Oakland police brass meet this week to review what went wrong after the July 8 Johannes Mehserle verdict, they should not overlook their own crowd control policy. Had the department followed this policy, it could have minimized property damage and also avoided police-inflicted injuries and wrongful arrests of demonstrators.