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A police of New York arrested about 300 people at Columbia University and the City College of New York in April 30, during anti-war protests in Gaza, firing flash grenades to stun and disorient protesters. Two nights later, in Los Angeles, the police arrested more than 200 people at UCLA.
In colleges in Connecticut, Georgia, Texas, New Hampshire and in other places, tenin the of protesters were arrested.
Experts in policing warnin against drawing conclusions about each police intervention, saying it is too early to determine where the police may have acted hastily. This research could take years.
However, an initial analysis of the approachin of the protests on campus suggests that the police, in In many cases, it has not yet moved away from outdated ways of dealing with large demonstrations, they said. They added that many dinprayed to understand the lessons of the racial justice protests of 2020, when the misconduct of police in relationship to theThe protesters resulted in various colorsof the legal multimillionaires.
“What you don’t wantinis a large number of prisons low quality. He wantsina small number of prisons of high quality,” said Edward Maguire, a professor of criminology at Arizona State University.
Reuters conducted interviews with 10 experts in criminology, policing, civil liberties and law, in addition to analyzing recent research for this reportin.
From the first prisons in pasta in Columbia, in April 18, at least 2,600 protesters were detainedof the in more than 100 protests in 39 Thisof the It is in Washington, D.C., according to The Appeal, a news organizationin to profit. The charges are, in most of them from trespassing, with some from assaulting a police officer. New York also charged the suspects with criminal mischief and theft.
Some prosecutors are dropping cases. After the police dressed in riot gear intervened at the University of Texas in Austin in April 25, Travis County prosecutors dropped charges against 57 people, citing lack of probable cause.
Criminologists sayin that many cases of prisons in pasta are archiveof the because the police applies broad, general statements, sometimes in languagein identical, to a large number of suspects.
They can alsoin be counterproductive, as they increase tensions and generate animosity in in relation to policeproviding to thes protesters a rallying cry that fuels protests further inflamesof theaccording to experts.
Columbia University, which called the police twice did not respond to a request for comment, but Columbia President Minouche Shafik said in a note in April 18, which requested the police to vacate the day-long student camp, saying they violated several rules in order to ensure campus safety.
A police of New York did not respond to a request for comment, but in a press conference after the April 30 operation, the commissioner of police Edward Caban said that “the situation in its campuses had deteriorated to the point of putting in risk the safety of its students, teachers, staff and the public.”
The Department of Police of Los Angeles referred questions to UCLA officials, who did not respond.
Response to the George Floyd case in 2020
Much of the current thinking about policing protests was shaped by the 2020 demonstrations following the murder of George Floyd by police of Minneapolis, which sparked global protests against police brutality and racism.
A 2022 article from the Executive Research Forum of Policethirsty in Washington, which analyzed the law enforcement response in 2020, recommended avoiding prisons in pasta sinas possible and called for limiting the use of so-called “less lethal” ammunition, such as tear gas and rubber bullets.
Furthermore, it concluded that the police should get more involved with protesters and prioritize to the establishing trust and communication before making a decisioninonstration of strength, e.g.inusing anti-riot equipment.
Another 2022 report from the National Institute of Policing highlighted the importance of communication infriendly with leaders of the protests, utilizing modern research into crowd psychology, and restricting the use of force to “specific individuals and groups who commitin crimes, and not to entire groups of protesters.”
In Denver, the head of police Ron Thomas said to the Citizen Oversight Board that refused a campus request to take out a protest camp for the second time in April 26, after the first operation resulted in 45 prisons.
Thomas said he would resist future attempts to dismantle the camp. “I know there is no legal way to do this unless they actually do something that creates an unlawful assembly,” he said.
Source: CNN Brasil
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