television screens last year when thousands of occupy protesters clashed with the police and the kani park and around the city hundreds were arrested in the chaos and relations with tween the two organizations have been rocky ever since but all that changed this october when hurricane sandy struck the coast of new york and new jersey hurricane sandy forced more than a path of destruction it paved the way for cooperation between the n.y.p.d. and the occupy movement as a result of the increased presence of occupy and other neighborhood nonprofit crime rates have actually gone down in new york normally conditions like frank and storm caused looting muggings and other crimes but not this time an n.y.p.d. police source told the new york post quote this crisis allowed us all to remove the politics and the differences we had to do our job and come together to the aid of the people we all rose to the occasions so is this the beginning of a beautiful friendship to answer all that and more earlier i was joined by occupy wall street activists goldie from new york i asked him why the police violence d