A Primer on Police Crowd-Control Tactics

These 8 episodes of Immediatism podcast cover an array of topics to help you see crowds and terrain through a policing lens, in order to predict what police behaviors will be. Includes policing analysis of crowds, tactics, formations, and communications, gleaned mainly from a military operations manual, along with other mainstream sources of policing methods. The conclusion includes anarchist applications of this knowledge. The text as a whole provides a line of argument for not operating as a crowd, although one might use a crowd as cover, diversion, etc. From the Tom Nomad book, The Master's Tools: Warfare & Insurgent Possibility, put out by Repartee and available from LittleBlackCart.com.

1 - A Primer on Police Crowd-Control Tactics and Frameworks (Intro.)
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/109-a-primer-on-police-crowd-co...
2 - The Array of Forces
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/110-police-part-2-the-array-of-...
3 - Situational Analysis
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/111-police-part-3-situational-a...
4 - Crowd Assessment Questions
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/112-police-part-4-crowd-assessm...
5 - Terrain Analysis
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/113-police-part-5-terrain-analy...
6 - Tactical Operations
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/114-police-part-6-tactical-oper...
7 - Aspects of Police Formations (& Communication)
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/115-police-part-7-aspects-of-ta...
8 - Conclusion
https://immediatism.com/archives/podcast/116-police-part-8-conclusion-by...

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I'm not much of a street-action person, but definitely enjoying this so far. It goes into a lot of depth, and can get a bit tedious at times, but the takeaways are all spot-on. Basically, the model of concentrating at a big street demonstration is pretty awful, unless used as a distraction by small, mobile, offensive, independent groups. Be wolfpack, not herd.

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