Practice helped cops frustrate those intent on violence
For four days, and nearly around the clock, Chicago police guided, cajoled and blockaded roaming groups of NATO protesters, following a set of strategic goals that laid the foundation for everything they did.

Keep protesters from damaging property or hurting anyone; keep any trouble south of the city’s famous Michigan Avenue retail district, where many international dignitaries were staying; and do it all with a “soft look” that belied the overwhelming police presence and kept violent confrontation to a minimum.

By all appearances, it worked.
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from occupychicago:

Chicago, IL– Occupy Chicago has obtained photographs of suspected police informants, who according to witnesses and arrestees were part of a law enforcement operation, which has resulted in the prosecution of 5 NATO protesters on terrorism-related charges. The city has yet to admit to using infiltrators in the Wednesday night raid on a Bridgeport home of activists, but both suspected police informants who go by the names of “Mo” and “Gloves” (aka “Nadiya”) were arrested with 9 others but then mysteriously disappeared. Mo and Gloves have not been seen since.
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