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Thread: It's cool to see a lot of graphics circulating on strategic street tactics right now. You might be surprised to learn that cops think about their positioning and movement in urban spaces a lot, they rent out spaces and hire extras to practice crowd control.
They play with their positioning like a sport. I always thought street movements would do well to pay more attention to this and put more thought into their group movements.
So I made some group-oriented street tactic graphics, based off of tactics that I have seen work. Some of these are tactics that cops employ frequently. But all of them are tactics that protesters could learn to use, or learn when their enemy is using them against them.
Here is the DHS Field Force Manual for crowd control. If you want to see some cop specific formations go to page 30 in the team tactics chapter. https://www.unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9-14-16-email-attachment-Crowd-Control.pdf
Adding one more.
Here is an old (outdated) police training video outlining some basic police formations and their purposes. https://archive.org/details/MobAndRiotControl
US Army manual on crowd control. Formations start on page 112. Urban layout and more formation stuff starts on page 226. https://archive.org/details/milmanual-fm-3-19.15-civil-disturbance-operations/page/n111/mode/2up
Note the team-oriented play in their training.
