Chapter 2

Police Operations

Chapter 2

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Police Operations

Chapter 2

The term crowd in the book refers to a gathering of the people for some purpose. This gathering can either be small or at times it can be big. The main purpose of the crowd is to build pressure on the cops and on the local government and they are usually sitting without a leader for the fulfillment of the demands. This type of gathering is known as a casual crowd and to disperse such type of crowd snot that difficult for the police officials.

Then the other type of crowd which is formulated in the public place is without any sort of the public leadership. The purpose of this type of gathering is usually gathered for a common purpose but their main motto is based on the individual level. We can take the example of the gathering of the crowd in a sporting event.

Then the other type of crowd that creates a massive gathering is an aggressive crowd who has got the functional leadership and they gather together under a common purpose for the expression and attitude regarding that issue.

Then comes the most serious issue under the situation of the crowds and that is under the leadership of an active leader and they came out for a special purpose and demands. The purpose of this type of crowd is to fulfil the specific demands for which they have gathered. This type of crowd can create trouble for the police and the authorities as they are really hyper about the fulfilment of their demands.

There are various ways to handle the crowd for the police officials. The first and the form is for having a peaceful talks and listen to their demands and tell them the legal ways. The other way is to use the loud amplifiers and speakers to disperse the crowd by warning them about the major consequences that can occur. Then comes the little push towards the violence but that too in the form that nobody gets a major injury afterwards it comes a point where the police needs to take a strict action to disperse the crowd1.

There are few ways that can lead the crowd to the point where it can give issues leading towards the point of the civil disturbance. These are irritable stage, growth of crowd, milling, precipitating event, hysterical and uncontrolled violence and spread of violence.

The term riot refers to a point where the crowd gets out of control and their rage and furious nature reach towards a point where the crowd gets out of control and they start damaging the public property o the maximal level1.

The next point is the step of dispersion and for that there are also various steps. The first is to manage the huge of amount of force by its fear the crowd can disperse. Then with the announcement method explaining the pros and the cons of the consequences as per the behavior of the crowd. Then through verbal command and the last option is of the physical action.

In case of the vehicular pursuits, there is a massive car chase on the high security level where the chase can lead up to the heated moment and can create a severe stressful and dangerous situation.

The six factors that can determine the pursuit liability are highly essential and they can be described as purpose of the pursuit, then comes the driving conditions, then comes the use of warning devices, the next step is of the excessive speed, use of force and the continuation of the pursuit1.

All the vehicles should be warned on the highway to take one side. The roads should be blocked by the cops in case of the emergency vehicle so it may stop. The pedestrians should take refuge in some nearby clubs to avoid any accident.

Tunnel vision refers to the point in the judicial system which enables a person to reach towards a point where all the people comes towards a similar point and find out the similar consequences that can generate or abolish the incident.

Following are the three ways which a cop must follow are potential harm present during the pursuit, the availability of other mean and the; last but not the least that the police offers pursue a traffic dissenters.

End Notes

Langguth, A. J. (2018). Hidden terrors: the truth about US police operations in Latin America (Vol. 27). Open Road Media.