For this module, your assignment will revolve around the DRNC, the theme that is woven throughout the CRJ courses. DRNC Scenario Background: The following story is a fictional account of planning and preparation leading up to the mythical Democratic-Republican National Convention (DRNC) event in Miami, Florida. The story is loosely based on an amalgamation of real life occurrences in the lead up to the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference in Miami, Florida in 2003. The names of all the characters in the story are fictional. Meeting of the Mass Arrest/Mass Casualty Subcommittee (Six weeks before the beginning of the DRNC) Major Louis Warren of the Miami-Dade Police Department has been appointed by MDPD Director Melanie Duncan as the principal planner and overall Incident Commander for Security of the DRNC special event. Major Warren has appointed Captain Barry Jackson and Captain Steven Black as co-chairs of the Mass Arrest/Mass Casualty Subcommittee. The subcommittee is comprised of the following members: Captain Barry Jackson, Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, Special Operations, Intake and Release Bureau Captain Steven Black, Miami-Dade Police Court Services Bureau Jerome Bethel, Government Liaison & Public Relations Office of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida Cynthia Fox, Miami-Dade County Clerk of the Courts Flip Morrison, Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office Gladys Thorpe, Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office Linda Riley, Jackson Memorial Hospital Captain Barry Jackson called the meeting to order at 9:05 a.m. Captain Jackson introduced Major Louis Warren and Captain Earl Bishop to the rest of the subcommittee members. Both Warren and Bishop were known to most of the members. The Mass Arrest/Mass Casualty Subcommittee had met twice before, but Clerk of the Courts and the Public Defender’s Office were being represented for the first time at this meeting, and Jackson felt that formal introductions were necessary. Major Warren spoke briefly to open the meeting. He gave a brief recap of the overall security planning for the DRNC. Everything was on schedule, and most of the purchases of new equipment had already been completed. Warren also told the subcommittee that the training schedule was also moving along on time. After the short update, Warren gave the floor to Captain Bishop, who was there to provide an overview of the lessons learned from the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Conference in 2003. That was the last time that the MiamiDade area had encountered an event similar to the upcoming DRNC. Captain Bishop had put together a PowerPoint presentation as an overview of the issues encountered and the lessons learned from the FTAA Conference event (see the FTAA Independent Review Panel Report 209-20-04 in Doc Sharing). Bishop mentioned that in 2003, there were 234 arrests directly related to the FTAA Conference civil disturbances over a five day period. He told the subcommittee that they sho.

1. For this module, your assignment will revolve around the
DRNC, the theme that is woven throughout the CRJ courses.
DRNC Scenario Background: The following story is a fictional
account of planning and preparation leading up to the mythical
Democratic-Republican National Convention (DRNC) event in
Miami, Florida. The story is loosely based on an amalgamation
of real life occurrences in the lead up to the Free Trade Area of
the Americas conference in Miami, Florida in 2003. The names
of all the characters in the story are fictional. Meeting of the
Mass Arrest/Mass Casualty Subcommittee (Six weeks before the
beginning of the DRNC) Major Louis Warren of the Miami-
Dade Police Department has been appointed by MDPD Director
Melanie Duncan as the principal planner and overall Incident
Commander for Security of the DRNC special event. Major
Warren has appointed Captain Barry Jackson and Captain
Steven Black as co-chairs of the Mass Arrest/Mass Casualty
Subcommittee.
The subcommittee is comprised of the following members:
Captain Barry Jackson, Miami-Dade Corrections and
Rehabilitation Department, Special Operations, Intake and
Release Bureau
Captain Steven Black, Miami-Dade Police Court Services
Bureau
Jerome Bethel, Government Liaison & Public Relations Office
of the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida
Cynthia Fox, Miami-Dade County Clerk of the Courts
Flip Morrison, Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office
Gladys Thorpe, Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office
Linda Riley,
Jackson Memorial Hospital Captain Barry Jackson called the
meeting to order at 9:05 a.m. Captain Jackson introduced Major
Louis Warren and Captain Earl Bishop to the rest of the
subcommittee members. Both Warren and Bishop were known to
most of the members. The Mass Arrest/Mass Casualty

2. Subcommittee had met twice before, but Clerk of the Courts and
the Public Defender’s Office were being represented for the
first time at this meeting, and Jackson felt that formal
introductions were necessary. Major Warren spoke briefly to
open the meeting. He gave a brief recap of the overall security
planning for the DRNC. Everything was on schedule, and most
of the purchases of new equipment had already been completed.
Warren also told the subcommittee that the training schedule
was also moving along on time. After the short update, Warren
gave the floor to Captain Bishop, who was there to provide an
overview of the lessons learned from the Free Trade Area of the
Americas (FTAA) Conference in 2003. That was the last time
that the MiamiDade area had encountered an event similar to the
upcoming DRNC. Captain Bishop had put together a PowerPoint
presentation as an overview of the issues encountered and the
lessons learned from the FTAA Conference event (see the FTAA
Independent Review Panel Report 209-20-04 in Doc Sharing).
Bishop mentioned that in 2003, there were 234 arrests directly
related to the FTAA Conference civil disturbances over a five
day period. He told the subcommittee that they should expect at
least twice that number for the upcoming DRNC. During the
FTAA, there were approximately 10,000 total protestors. Bishop
said that intelligence reports so far suggested that up to 20,000
protestors would be coming to Miami-Dade during the DRNC.
Therefore, it was reasonable to expect at least twice the number
of arrests this time around. Bishop said that the 234 arrests
during the FTAA were mostly done without incident, but that a
few problems had been encountered. At one point during
Thursday, the heaviest day for arrests during the FTAA, the
booking desk at Dade County Jail had become overloaded. This
occurred despite the setup of a temporary field detention site
under the Metrorail station at Earlington Heights. It was at
Earlington Heights that most of the problems occurred. There
were the typical complaints of handcuffs being too tight and the
lack of drinking water by the prisoners. But the most serious
allegation was a sexual battery complaint against one of the

3. Miami-Dade Corrections officers. That allegation was later
determined to be unfounded, but the mere fact that the
allegation was made had prompted the MDC Department to
consider other preventive measures in the future to avoid the
allegations in the first place.
The most prevalent complaint that week came from prisoners
who claimed that their personal belongings had been thrown
away by the police after they were arrested. The investigation
after the incident revealed that indeed this had occurred on
several occasions. Most of the instances were attributed to the
hasty manner in which the prisoners were arrested and booked
at the temporary detention facility. This was an allegation that
was supported by the post-incident investigation. The other
issue that Captain Bishop brought up was the “solidarity”
protest at the Civic Center on the last day of the FTAA. That
was when approximately 200 remaining protestors converged at
the parking lot of the State Attorney’s Office next to the Dade
County Jail in order to express their unhappiness with the arrest
of their fellow protestors the day before. It was during Friday’s
solidarity protest that Miami-Dade Police discharged three
Pepperball rounds during the arrest of seven protestors who had
refused to obey a dispersal order. That was the only time that
any chemical agents had been dispersed by MDPD personnel the
entire week of the event. By contrast, the City of Miami PD had
made use of chemical agents and other “less lethal” munitions
on several occasions that week. Captain Bishop concluded his
presentation and stated that he was mostly concerned with the
mass casualty angle. He asked the subcommittee how ready they
felt to handle a large number of casualties should it occur
during the DRNC. At that point in the meeting, Ms. Linda Riley
from Jackson Memorial Hospital (JMH) took the floor and
briefed the committee on the mass casualty plan that the
subcommittee had been working on. That plan included JMH
and other nearby hospitals and trauma centers.
Assignment Instructions For the purpose of this assignment, you

4. are playing the role of Captain Barry Jackson, the cochair of the
Mass Arrest/Mass Casualty Subcommittee. Your job is to
prepare a mass arrest and mass casualty plan of action for the
DRNC special event. You are to consider and identify the key
issues associated with the possibility of mass arrests and mass
casualties during the DRNC.
Refer to the observations and lessons learned from the FTAA
PowerPoint and from the Independent Review Panel Report .
Prepare a report not to exceed 1,500 words to explain your
recommendations to Major Warren
Attention:
I hope that you can find the information below by google. I
think that this is essential to writing the assignment.
FTAA Miami, 2003 – After Action Review & Lessons Learned
Independent Review Panel Report
Let me know if you have any questions. This is due by Tuesday.
I apologize for the short notice but, my father passed away this
week and I am out of town while I had to attend the funeral and
family business. Thank you so much. Let me know if you need
anything else. Don’t forget, 3 references at least.