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?