Outlawing legitimate protest and targeting campaign groups is dangerous and unsustainable

OWEN WEST

Outlawing legitimate protest and targeting campaign groups is dangerous and unsustainable

School of Law & Criminal Justice

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and and Black Lives Matter protests have seen policing face new and unique challenges over recent months; but as crowd control specialist Owen West points out, attempting to ban legitimate demonstrations and reclassifying protest groups as serious crime organisations or domestic extremists is both dangerous and futile.

Original language	English
Journal	Policing Insight
Publication status	Published - 7 Sept 2020

Keywords

Policing

UN SDGs

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Outlawing legitimate protest and targeting campaign groups is dangerous and unsustainable

Abstract

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UN SDGs

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