Says here that the CMPD spent $447,000 keeping an eye on Occupy Charlotte. There’s also news coverage that group members may have used a sewer as a toilet. For that sort of money and given all the new surveillance stuff the CMPD presumably has because of the DNC, you’d figure that the issue would have been discovered and dealt with long before the Occupy folks were evicted by the city. So not an reassuring development for the quality of police protection we can expect Uptown in early September.