Reply #12: Maybe you can find a local OWS demonstration that is in a smaller, safer city? Maybe college campus?

[Shagbark Hickory]

If you can demonstrate in a place that is safer and I do mean safer from crooked cops then maybe that is something to look into.

As others have pointed out, getting arrested is something that stays with you forever.
Once upon a time I was arrested and actually beaten up by police and my parents hired a lawyer and paid them a lot of money to get the record expunged and the case thrown out.

But the problem is, the cops still know that you've been arrested and those job applications...
They used to asked "have you ever been convicted of a felony?"
Now they ask if you've ever been arrested and if so explain ____________________.

You may have the right to not answer that but stacked up against other applications that have a clear "no" answer, that doesn't exactly give you the competitive edge.