Download - Looking for Leaders, Looking for Trouble: Police-Protestor Dynamics in Public Order Situations
Looking for Leaders, Looking for Trouble: Police-Protestor Dynamics in
Public Order Situations
Areas for DiscussionAreas for Discussion
1. Looking for Leaders
2. Providing a Focus
3. Looking for Trouble
Looking for LeadersLooking for Leaders
• Crowd as Collective– “Riot Generals”– Crowd Psychology
• Leaderless Groups– Ideology– Internal differences– Negotiated
management
Providing a FocusProviding a Focus
• Policing the Protest or Police as Protest?– Police as target– Stand-Offs
• Cop-ping the Blame– Policing as cause
Looking for TroubleLooking for Trouble
• Expecting the Worst– ‘History’– Media
• Training for Trouble– Simulating Riots– VDPs
Concluding RemarksConcluding Remarks
• Need to Disaggregate– Communication– Leaderless intervention
• Force as Focus– Flexibility– Responsive Policing
• Tempered Training – Not just Simulation– Clearing the red-mist?