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DESCRIPTION:Two Berkeley Police Department (BPD) agreements, which violate our 
 constitutional rights to privacy, free speech, assembly and equal 
 treatment, will be up for renewal May 22.\n\nThese agreements are the 
 Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (NCRIC) and the Urban 
 Areas Security Initiative (UASI). The agreements, which are merely verbal, 
 violate the Berkeley Municipal Code which requires that PD agreements be in 
 writing before review and consideration by Berkeley City Council. Police 
 Chief Meehan calls them “a general understanding, meaning there is no 
 express agreement…”. *\n\nThe Council must sever ties with these 
 programs now. \n\nNCRIC, coordinated with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task 
 Force, encourages the police to send Suspicious Activities Reports (SARs) 
 to its data fusion center where they are stored permanently. SARs are based 
 on non-criminal behaviors: taking a photo of a building, writing in a 
 notebook, buying fertilizer, wearing a hoodie or headscarf etc. This leads 
 to religious and racial profiling. \n\nUASI is the program under which 
 urban warfare exercises are conducted with local police departments. Police 
 Magazine credited the “effectiveness” of the raid on Occupy Oakland to 
 the urban warfare exercises, held shortly before, on the UC Berkeley 
 campus. The BPD participated in these exercises. It also, together with 
 Albany and U.C. police, hopes to get, through UASI funding, an armored 
 vehicle to “disrupt, investigate and apprehend criminals”.\n\nAlso ask 
 that the BPD not respond to Mutual Aid requests for Purely First Amendment 
 activities and not respond to, or request aid from jurisdictions that use 
 brutal tactics or so-called non-lethal weapons.\n\nDo not support the 
 Police Review Commission’s recommendation to approve NCRIC and UASI. 
 These programs cannot be fixed. The program agreements are with the FBI and 
 Homeland Security and are unavailable to the public.\n\nPlease ask the City 
 Council to act now and NOT renew NCRIC and UASI.\nBoth will expire June 30, 
 2012.\n \nTom Bates                (510) 981-7100\nLinda Maio               
 (510) 981-7110\nDarryl Moore           (510) 981 7120\nMax Anderson         
 (510) 981-7130\nJesse Arreguin         (510) 981-7140\n\nLaurie Capitelli   
       (510) 981-7150\nSusan Wengraf        (510) 981-7160\nKriss 
 Worthington   (510) 981-7170\nGordon Wozniak     (510) 981-7180 
 \n\nSuperBOLD\nFor more information call (510) 843-2152 or (510) 
 548-6310\n\n*5/15/12 Council Agenda Packet, 41b\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/18/18713755.php
SUMMARY:Stop Police Spying and Urban Warfare NOW! Speak Out
LOCATION:Old City Hall, 2134 M.L. King Jr. Way\nBerkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/05/18/18713755.php
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