Originally Posted by Rochard

The protests didn't go "head to head" with police in a traditional sense, but rather took up large amounts of time and personnel with multiple issues - everything from theft, rape, to sanitation issues, all the way up to the mayor's office of various towns who had to come up with a position on all of this and then had to take action (or not take action).

Here's an article that says NYC blew through $6 million on costs related to OWS:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/occup...ry?id=14975940

All of this money spent is our tax dollars, and what did we get for it? Nothing at all.