The problem is that the police are told to allow the Occupy Wall Street spoiled children to break the law. If these spoiled brats were arrested immediately and had to spend 6 months to 1 year in prison they would learn some consideration for others.
Until then, the spoiled children do whatever they want and the protests(or should I say temper tantrums) continue.
For some reason, a scene from Fawlty Towers comes to mind. Basil is chewing out an incompetent Irish contractor who keeps saying "If the good Lord . . .'. Basil grabs him by the shirt front and says, "If you say that one more time, I will bring you closer to him."
A closer experience with jail and its denizens, even if only the county lockup, would be salutary - if not for the protesters, at least for the public who have to put up with this crap.