Assessing
Countermeasures for Effectively Managing Disorderly Protesting
Crowds at Private Sector Facilities
By Dr. Joshua Sinai
When disorderly protesting crowds threaten a private sector’s
facility’s safety, it is important for security departments
to employ a risk assessment framework to anticipate and prioritize
the allocation of protective resources to mitigate rather than have
the volatile event escalate out of control.
Effectively managing disorderly protesting crowds is especially
crucial in the period following Hamas’s hundreds of fighters
carrying out a massacre of Israeli citizens along the bordering Gaza
settlements on October 7, 2023, which led to the Israeli military
forces invading Gaza to defeat Hamas’s military infrastructure.
In support of Hamas’s attacks against Israel, hundreds of disorderly
pro-Hamas demonstrators proceeded to take over parts of university
campuses throughout the United States and Western Europe, with the
affected administrations and their security departments unable to
manage such violent disturbances. These were accompanied by massive
and often unruly pro-Hamas demonstrations in U.S. and Western European
cities.
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Assessing
Countermeasures for Effectively Managing Disorderly Protesting
Crowds at Private Sector Facilities
