Just typing those three little words makes me cringe. I suppose there are worse things to be called at Occupy Oakland, but ‘peace police’ is an especially nasty pejorative in these parts. When used by those of an insurrectionary persuasion, it suggests not only collaboration with the powers that be, but a whole litany of other unpleasant stereotypes: the typical peace police officer is a muesli-eating, middle-class, censorious, wet white [...]