Creative
Only logged in members can reply and interact with the post.
Join SimilarWorlds for FREE »

Do police need different tactics when dealing with radicalized college students?

I understand from people in the know, that the police had difficulty handling the BLM uprisings in part because sympathetic people within the police and/or city administrations collaborated with riot organizers, thus putting the organizers one step ahead of the police responses.

Watching the current pro-Hamas/anti-Jew riots on TV suggests the need for different tactics, tactics that don't create photo-ops for the woke media catching "protesters" getting man-handled by the police.

News about some states thinking about calling in the national guard bring up memories of Kent, where student rioters were shot. We don't need that again.

History says that this won't go away. As long as the news cameras are there the riots will continue. Yea, the tail wags the dog until something breaks.

What should the police, the schools, city/state authorities be doing about it?
This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »
Guardian · 56-60, M
Probably, what police already do. Arrest, detain, and charge. The most egregious will end up in court and convicted.
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
@Guardian and they either get away with it, or spend a few months in prison, get paroled, and are right back out doing it again...
Guardian · 56-60, M
@wildbill83 sadly, there is no better system.
wildbill83 · 36-40, M
Heartlander · 80-89, M
@Guardian Maybe we should rethink some of that. I grew up in the panty raid generation when student riots were without a cause. The rebel without a cause generation. Once the police showed and pushed back the riots intensified, and the kids found a cause: authority, police. 18-19... 21 year old kids probably have a proclivity to defy authority and all they need is a spark to ignite rebellion.

The riot organizers probably know all this and they intentionally create a police/authority confrontation to activate the rebellion inclinations.

The riot organizers have to be out smarted, somehow. Find a way to turn the organizers themselves into the cause..