Adaptive Crowd Control Management: Merging Italian Doctrine with American Practice
Andrea “Mahigun” Bogiatto Crowd and civil disturbance operations are among the most complex tasks in modern policing. Urban density, rapid information flow, and the psychological volatility of large groups have rendered improvisation and experience-based approaches increasingly obsolete. In the United States, analyses by the Department of Justice (“After-Action Assessment of the Police Response to the 2020 Protests,” 2022) and the National Institute of Justice (“Police Response to Mass Demonstrations,” 2020) identified three recurring structural weaknesses: 1) absence of a unified…
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