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The Tea Party movement is described as a group of conservative Americans who were upset with the policies of President Barack Obama. Their position, lower taxes and less government (Arceneaux& Nicholson, 2012). Republican affiliates have proven to have increased voter support and possess influential power in the Republican Caucus. A condemned circumstance of the movement is rumors of racial resentment, pointing out contrasts in the hard-working American versus those reluctant to get a job and scrounges off the government. Arceneaux and Nicholson (2012) found Tea Party activists are predominantly white, male, conservative, and Republican. Overwhelmingly they are in support of cutting domestic program budgets and limiting government. Courser (2012) contends the Tea Party is a protest movement without significant organization or leadership. The Tea Party movement differs from political movements of the past such as the gun rights movement or the feminist movement because, more than any other group in the past were able to shape the 2010 election, effecting the composition of congress (Goldstein, 2011).

Formalized in 2011, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement was primarily built on the dissatisfaction with the political process (Mulqueen&Tataryn, 2012). Unlike the Tea Party movement, OWS lacked a cohesive goal and agenda. As yet another alternative form of social or political organization, its tenets were economic inequality, corporate greed and how the wealthy have damaged democracy (Dreier, 2012). Unlike other political movements, OWS lacked the money, media contacts, and national support network. OWS and the Tea Party Movement are dissimilar. Their core beliefs contrast; the Tea Party Patriots are concerned with fiscal responsibility, free markets, and constitutionally limited government where OWS is consumed with the ideology of corporate greed (Meckler & Martin,2011).

LaSalle (2012) highlights how protests from OWS involved chalk on sidewalks, traffic being blocked, breaching of police barriers and resisting arrest. Therefore the most appropriate preparations must be made in advance. While Tea Party protests have been classified as peaceful, they are more in line with ugly commentary (Toto, 2010). Policy recommendations should mirror that of best practices used in previous political conventions which have the potential disaster. Policy recommendation for the Miami-Dade Command Staff should include a mission to protect the political process for all. This also means reatining quality public safety service and conditions for locals as well as mutual aid components. Intelligence gathering will be critical to organizational success. Intelligence should be collected, processed, analyzed and requireemnts should subsequently be determined. A policy for the crowd management group or field force platform should be one of great self-discipline; presence, detection, deterrence, and clearance (arrest) (Securing the 2012 GOP, 2012).