Post News: Police "regret" some officers' text messages on Occupy Denver

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Today's Front Page News

Police "regret" some officers' text messages on Occupy Denver
A 30-page volume of car-to-car text messages released Wednesday by the Denver Police Department shows — in occasionally unflattering detail — the behind-the-scenes attitudes and frustrations of officers assigned to patrol Occupy Denver protests.  

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Today's Local Politics

Police "regret" some officers' text messages on Occupy Denver
A 30-page volume of car-to-car text messages released Wednesday by the Denver Police Department shows — in occasionally unflattering detail — the behind-the-scenes attitudes and frustrations of officers assigned to patrol Occupy Denver protests.  

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Today's Business

Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian accuses Colorado investment adviser of "massive fraud"
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Today's Sports Headlines

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Today's Style

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Today's Opinion

Editorial: Texts rude? Yes. Retaliation? No.
The inappropriate and disrespectful text messages that officers were sending each other during the Occupy Denver protests are just one more measure of the bad atmospherics at the city's police department.  

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