Patience wanes with Occupy DC protest

Published December 11, 2011 12:00am ET



District police have spent more than $1 million monitoring Occupy DC protests, and Mayor Vincent Gray and other officials say the city’s patience with the two-month-old demonstrations is wearing thin.

The Metropolitan Police Department alone spent about $1.3 million on Occupy DC as of Nov. 29, including $74,000 for overtime pay. But that total doesn’t include services provided by other city agencies, according to the D.C. Council’s Judiciary Committee. It also doesn’t incorporate the cost of the massive police presence required at two Occupy protests last week, including the arrest of 31 protesters who built a wooden structure in the McPherson Square park and 62 others who blocked K Street intersections during the evening rush hour.

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