Crowd Control
The Crowd Control topic focuses on the difficult task of controlling large groups of people with a limited number of police officers and resources. The police crowd control articles and tips in this section focus on strategy, policy, planning and tactics that can help quell a riled-up crowd and riot gear — helmets and shields — that will keep them safe in the process.
Law enforcement must be prepared for the worst when a controversial verdict is read, protestors become violent or a sports team wins a championship and the celebration spills to the streets.
What challenges will law enforcement face in 2019?
This one-size-fits-most solution comfortably suits officers
After years of resistance, law enforcement is coming to realize it needs a proven program management tool to help agencies coordinate response
One officer was shot in the face, just below his right eye, with the bullet lodging behind his ear
Suspect died Friday night in a confrontation with a police officer who was answering a call about a man disrupting traffic
Chief said he has gone out of his way to avoid what he once called Ferguson’s “missteps”
Officer arrested a college student as he photographed a police encounter with a homeless woman
Unnamed officer was found to be justified for drawing his gun after his partner wrestled with a protester who struck him on Dec. 10
Riot at a juvenile rehabilitation center has put a neighboring town “at its wits’ end” following the latest in a series of violent uprisings
Cops are directing traffic as the group heads toward the police administration building where a there is a scheduled meeting of the city Police Commission
Police didn’t mislead more than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters into getting arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge, a federal appeals court decided
Tactic was introduced to officers attending an NYPD training session – part of the department’s new “smart policing” program
Demonstrators blocked traffic along the cable bridge as they slowly marched from Pasco toward Kennewick
Investigators asked the public Thursday to provide more social media images and eyewitness accounts of shooting that has sparked a series of protests
Security planning began long before the grand jury announcement
Police chiefs in Chicago; Boston; Nashville, Tennessee, and elsewhere have taken a largely hands-off approach to demonstrations
Denver Police Union President Nick Rogers says protesters went too far and officers should have been allowed to intervene
Coroner has decided to order an inquest, which would be open to the public, in hopes of calming “some of the fears and outrage of the community”
Police say suspect threw multiple rocks, hitting two officers, and refused to put down other stones before he was shot
Retiring in May after a five-year stint of guiding the agency through several contentious situations, including civil unrest in Ferguson
Said Wednesday that he had tried in vain to urge Gov. Jay Nixon to deploy the National Guard in his town as people burned and looted buildings in protest of a grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown case
The bipartisan panel is to first hear testimony from local officials as a prelude to calling upon members of Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration in the coming weeks
Officers deployed pepper spray into a crowd and used bikes to form a barricade after an officer went to the ground during a Jan. 19 protest
Unit will be equipped with machine guns and heavy armor and will receive training in advanced counterterrorism tactics and “disorder control”
Citizen board agrees with other investigators that cop who arrested woman during altercation at gay pride event did not use excessive force
When officers began to testify against a proposed civilian police oversight board in St. Louis, some in the audience began yelling, pushing and shoving
Protesters say the transit demonstration will kick off four days of action over the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend
Several dozen protesters hindered the morning commute for some Thursday as they marched in the streets of Washington
Activists protesting what they call “police and state violence against black people” chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels and blocked a busy Boston area highway
Police made a handful of arrests after using tear gas and pepper spray to disperse crowds after nearly 90 fires were set
More than 100 anti-police protesters crashed a medal presentation honoring a 100-year-old Navy vet Saturday
A group of people formed a human shield to keep officers from a man police wanted to detain
Two Boston police officers were hospitalized after they were allegedly attacked by seven teenagers