​Occupy rallies and protests have been happening all over the country since the movement began at Wall Street 25 days ago, with arrests occasionally punctuating the effort, as we saw last Wednesday after the massive march from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park. One of the latest mass arrest incidents happened in Boston early this morning, with more than 100 protesters reportedly arrested after clashing with cops. The main reason for these arrests, which happened when some 1,000 demonstrators tried to expand from Dewey Square, where Mayor Menino says they may stay, into the Rose Kennedy Greenway? Landscaping.

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​A police officer in Nassau County, Long Island pleaded not guilty yesterday to sexually abusing a woman, receiving a bribe and official misconduct. Garrett Mannerz allegedly pulled over three women and gave the driver a sobriety test before removing a passenger and offering to let them go if she "did something for him." She claims he proceeded to grab her hand, forcing her to touch him sexually in his patrol car. Then he let them go. Later, the woman alleges, he called her repeatedly, spoke sexually and requested a date, but she recorded the conversation and turned him in. Though that might seem like slam-dunk evidence, remember that so-called "rape cop" Kenneth Moreno was on tape ensuring his accuser that he at least wore a condom on the night she was too drunk to get home without NYPD assistance. Moreno went on to argue that he never had sex with the woman who claimed he raped her and was, of course, ruled innocent. [WSJ, NYDN]

​The NYPD has announced "the Rumbler," a new siren for cop cars designed to alert "even the most distracted cellphone-yakking, text-messaging or headphone-addled pedestrian or motorist," according to the New York Post. That is what we need! Louder streets. It can supposedly cut through the ubiquitous sound of horns and travel for up to 200 feet. So far, 25 have already been tested in lower Manhattan, with another 132 coming tomorrow. The Rumbler works for 10 seconds at a time, for when police need a little added burst in addition to their five existing siren settings.

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​Members of the Emergency Service Unit of the NYPD -- the "elite," according to the Daily News -- have fired three stray rounds in three months, including a mistaken shot unleashed by a sniper (with a rifle!) during the tree-lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Center. That is, a man charged with protecting hundreds of tourists from atop a city building fired his gun while on guard in late November. And then it happened two more times in the next two months!

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​Who polices the police? In New Jersey, it's lawmakers who are moving to "crack down" on steroid use among police and firefighters, who are more obsessed with staying fit than everyone else in New Jersey. The measure, introduced as a state assembly bill on Monday, would make it so "uniformed public employees" could be randomly tested for anabolic steroid use and would be subjected to additional tests before being prescribed steroids or growth hormone. Who's really going to argue against this one?

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​Ever hear about this show The First 48? It's on A&E, and the premise of the show is that the first 48 hours of a crime are of the utmost importance to solving the case, after which it becomes impossible, or something. It's pretty compelling television! But like all TV shows involving police -- like Cops, for example -- it may very well exacerbate some of their more flamboyant behavior on the job because cameras are there. Which might explain why a seven-year-old girl died during a raid that was filmed by the show's cameras.

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​It's not like anybody can stop you. Apparently, if you're going to jump off of a bridge today, it appears that our city's services really can't stop you, even if you just want them to call you on your bluff and need someone to talk to.

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