Chicago Police Protest Operations - How Police Prevent Effective Protests, How They Control Protests, and How to Defeat Them

Dani Hensley
9 min readJun 14, 2020

Ever since the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago Police have openly and obnoxiously shown pride in using intimidation and violence to shut-down speech based on WHO is speaking, and the content of that speech

This reporter is in possession of FBI investigative records from the 1968 DNC in Chicago which include typed FBI communications between the Chicago FBI field office, its agents, and various other FBI points of contact.

That record shows complaints regarding misconduct on part of Chicago Police towards activists and protesters. The bureau initiated an investigation ained at the Chicago Police Department, but FBI agents suspuciously stated they never observed misconduct.

FBI interviews of CPD officers and high ranking CPD officials didn’t reveal anything substantive. Then again, it was 1968 and the advances needed to uncover the truth weren’t available, and it was so much easier in the 60s to cover-up civil rights violations, and easier to lie to the FBI. The feds only knew what you told them. They had no real way of accurately detecting deception.

Fast forward to the current day of electronic technology, body cams, dash cams, pod cameras on light poles, doorbell cams, and mobile phone devices that double as mobile computer systems with high-def cameras and high-sensitivity, high-def microphones.

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Dani Hensley

Dani is an experienced public safety journalist who covers the Chicago Police Department, U.S. federal law enforcement, and U.S. intelligence agencies.