How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Wow. That nails it right there. There are more cops policing OWS than there are policing all of Wall Street as it operates. Holy moly.  

(via rickwebb)

There’s a lot to like in this essay and the police responses to the protests have been striking. But it’s not actually clear to me that the financial crisis or our current levels of income inequality are the result of crime and not relatively few people profiting wildly by playing craftily by rules and laws skewed in their favor?

(via sciencevsromance)

Add to that list stupidity, hubris, short-sightedness and taking advantage of skewed incentives to the list of things that are frustrating and destructive, but not crimes.

Also, the people who “police” Wall Street are not actual police or primarily the FBI, but the SEC and other federal agencies.