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To: Land Shark who wrote (132283)	8/24/2008 9:01:46 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

revolt of demoRATs:DENVER – Security at the Democratic National Convention is mostly in the hands of the United States Secret Service, which prides itself on a kind of invisible-hand style: understated, dark-suited, always on alert. But out beyond the Pepsi Center’s security perimeter, the Denver Police Department appears to have taken a different strategy in making overt declarations of flak-jacketed, no-nonsense intimidation to head off trouble before it starts. On the usually demilitarized 16th Street Mall, a pedestrian-only shopping district about half a mile from the convention center, officers looking braced for the worst patrolled on foot in groups on Saturday night. In a park near the state capitol, where a protest rally against the war in Iraq drew perhaps 1000 people on Sunday, cavalry police sat waiting on horseback. Preparedness is the watchword. “You’ll definitely see a presence,” said Lieutenant Ron Saunier, a spokesman for the Denver Police Department. Mr. Saunier said that police visibility downtown might have looked a little more intense on Saturday night than it will the rest of the week since officers were out exploring their patrol areas and no convention-related events were scheduled. “We hope to create a secure, but friendly environment,” he said. There’s even a temporary holding center for the mass-arrests that may or may not happen. The Arrest Processing Site, as it’s called, has been carved in the last few months out of a former warehouse just east of downtown, able to contain up to 400 people at a time, with long banks of computers for finger-printing and booking, and lines of metal chairs, locked up behind chain-link-fence in the holding cells, for the possible arrestees to cool their heels. The warehouse, before security concerns took over, was the storage site for hundreds of Denver County voting machines, which had to be put on ice somewhere else.