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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Politics
Matt Pearce

How police have prepared for the Republican convention: Thousands of officers, courts open late

CLEVELAND _ Tens of thousands of Donald Trump supporters and activists who oppose him have arrived in or are on their way to Cleveland. Law enforcement officials have said they are ready for anything. Here's how they've prepared to deal with a potentially very tense atmosphere:

_In addition to local police, law enforcement agencies from as far as Fort Worth, Texas, are sending up to 2,500 officers.

_Cleveland's municipal court system is prepared to stay open from 5 a.m. to 1 a.m. during the convention, with a dozen judges available to process up to a 1,000 arrests a day.

_Ohio's open-carry laws will allow protesters to bring their guns, but police said they have "tweaked our policy a bit, our tactics, to ensure everybody is safe, including that person open-carrying" in response to the Dallas killings of police officers during a protest.

_Real guns are protected by law, but police have banned a very long list of other items from the protest area, including fake guns, tennis balls, containers of bodily fluids, bike locks and gas masks.

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