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.
Calls for police use of force transparency overlook the real risk to public safety personnel by releasing the video
Mayhem in another American city continues as pushers of false narratives infect the national narrative and invade vulnerable cities to commit acts of terror on the streets
Here are several considerations to help you ensure First Amendment rights of protesters while also making sure your officers are safe
During the NATO Summit, Chicago law enforcers are facing the cutting edge of what the Occupy Wall Street Movement call ‘a revolution’
In anticipation, the department sent officers to Alabama to train at a Department of Homeland Security facility
The University of California is recommending administrators deploy mediators instead of police in future campus demonstrations
Some protesters appeared to swarm a smaller number of LAPD officers
Progress on reforms has stalled at the Oakland Police Department, according to a federal monitor who also said the agency failed to properly prepare
Tear gas, vandalism, arrests, but also non-violent gatherings
Protesters are backing away from a call to block San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
The Occupy movement was relatively dormant though the winter, but now that spring has sprung, we can be assured that these events will be back — and possibly back with a vengeance
Socialists and trade union movements have long used May Day as a protest day
The new lawsuit is a nearly 150-page compendium of complaints
Initial reports that man shot at police were dismissed by ballistic tests
Thousands of students angry over tuition increases protested in Montreal, with some smashing windows of businesses
Smaller groups of officers will go into crowds to weed out problem protesters
Wyclef Jean to perform at 4:20 on 4/20, thousands attended rally in past years
Chief says she doesn’t want Nov. 18 pepper spraying of Occupy protesters to define her or the university
Lacks a plain recommendation to educate students about the difference between free speech and civil disobedience
Officers involved in the operation said they needed to use pepper spray to break through a crowd
Happy rioting is just as devastating to a community as angry rioting
Students angry over pricey courses pepper-sprayed
Fans filled the streets near the Lexington campus within minutes of the championship game’s conclusion late Monday
Lexington city police spokeswoman Sherelle Roberts told The Associated Press that several hundred officers will be out in force on Monday to help keep order
Judge ruled names of most officers in UC Davis incident must be removed
Melvin Kelley, a member of the group’s Tactical Action Committee, said, “This is our new encampment until May 1, when we retake” Frank Ogawa Plaza
Authorities express extreme disapproval at St. Patrick’s day mob in London, Ont.
Six months after the protesters first took over Zuccotti Park near New York City’s financial district, the protesters gathered there again
Last year, cars were vandalized and appliances flung from porches — responding police in riot gear were pelted with rocks and bottles
Authorities declared the march illegal
Sections that police have argued would violate privacy if released will stay sealed
The use of ‘kettling’ tactics by police in London during violent demonstrations in 2001 did not breach human rights
The NYPD issued six summonses for disorderly conduct and one for assault
