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.
Following violent protests, the chief of police in Portland suggested that the city ban the wearing of masks during protests
Cophateists are people who, at their best, create difficulties for law enforcement and, at their worst, pose a deadly threat to officers in this country
Encirclement is an American police tactic that might be viewed by the untrained eye as kettling
Family members calling for investigation into whether plainclothes cops who killed woman had properly ID’d themselves when they approached her car
Cell phone video captured a suspect’s attempted escape from police Wednesday during the South by Southwest Festival
Ten people were arrested at a Philly community meeting after protesters battled with cops in anger over the DA’s decision in a fatal OIS
Suspect appeared in court Monday, a day after his arrest on charges of felony assault, armed criminal action and a weapons offense
20-year-old charged Sunday with shooting cops who were keeping watch over a demonstration outside the PD
A high-profile deadly-force incident can provoke public reaction — and overreaction — in the streets. How can we ensure that we’ve done all we can to keep officers in those situations as safe as possible?
Dozens gathered for a candlelight vigil Thursday night, where they expressed sympathy for the wounded officers
With measured remarks and a conciliatory tone, police, political leaders and civil-rights activists on Thursday sought to tamp down tensions
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”
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