Crowd Management and Civil Demonstrations Resources
During these challenging times, the ability of police leaders, elected officials, and communities to prepare for, respond to, and successfully manage demonstrations and protests is more critical than ever. As always, the IACP stands ready to ensure its members have the tools and resources needed to address the challenges they are facing. To that end, the IACP has a wide array of resources available to members that address crowd management and civil demonstrations. These include model policies, one-page overviews, articles from Police Chief magazine, and video training available through IACPlearn.
- Policy Center resource: Crowd Management
- Policy Center resource: Incident Command
- Policy Center resource: Less-than-Lethal Weapons: Impact Projectiles Policy - Model Policy
- Community-Police Engagement Resource: Checklist for Civil Demonstration Response
- Community-Police Engagement Resource: Community Engagement and Dialogue
- Community-Police Engagement Resource: Options for Community Engagement and Dialogue
- Police Chief magazine: Chief’s Counsel: Critical Incidents in Context
- Police Chief magazine: Chief's Counsel: Critical Incident Review Board: Creation and Refinement
- Police Chief magazine: When Less (Force) Is More: De-escalation Strategies to Achieve Officer Objectives and Simultaneously Reduce the Use of Force
- Police Chief magazine: Policing Aboriginal Critical Incidents
- Police Chief magazine: OPP Public Order and Crowd Management: Principles and Tactics
- Police Chief magazine: Chief’s Counsel: Pandemics, Protests, Social Justice, and Qualified Immunity
- Police Chief magazine: Chief's Counsel: Crowd Management and Civil Rights Protection
- Police Chief magazine: Research in Brief: Public Safety and Mass Demonstrations
- Police Chief magazine: Planning for First Amendment Demonstrations
- Police Chief magazine: No More Rocks and Bottles: Lessons Learned in Crisis Communications
- Police Chief magazine: Turning “Us Against Them” into “We’re In This Together”
- Police Chief magazine: Collaborative Response to Critical Incidents: An International Perspective on Responding to Emergency Situations
- Police Chief magazine: Critical Incident Management: A Systematic Guide to Planning
To view IACPlearn content, log in using your IACP account credentials. Use the below links to navigate directly to learning content and click register at the top right to access additional fee-based training.
- IACPlearn: Surviving the Storm – Mental Wellness After a Critical Incident
- IACPlearn: Effectively Responding to Officer-Involved Shootings and Other Critical Incidents
- IACPlearn: Officer Down: How Smaller Agencies Can Manage Critical Incidents and Ensure Psychological Survival
- IACPlearn: Community Engagement after a Critical Incident: Evaluating Secondary Trauma in Police Departments
- IACPlearn: Critical Incidents: Preparation, Response and Management
- IACPlearn: Protecting Officer Safety & Wellness During Protests & Demonstrations
- IACPlearn: Use-of-Force, Crowd Control, and Civil Disturbances: A Brief Primer - FLETC
- IACPlearn: Crowd Management Policy and Tactics - A Global Perspective
- IACPlearn: The Evolution of Protests in the 21st Century and Effective Strategies for Managing Them
- IACPlearn: Riot Medic: Tactical Emergency Medical Support of Civil Disturbance Units
- IACPlearn: Demonstrations on University and College Campuses: Law Enforcement’s Role in Planning and Response
This list of non-IACP resources is for reference purposes only. The IACP does not necessarily endorse, certify, recommend, or promote any particular resource within.
- De-Escalation: Guidelines for how to begin evaluating your agency's de-escalation practices
- Social Media and Tactical Considerations for Law Enforcement
- Family Matters: Agency Considerations for Officer Family Preparedness Reference Guide
- Family Matters: Emergency Preparedness Considerations for Law Enforcement Families
- Guiding Principles for Crowd Management
- Rethinking the Police Response to Mass Demonstrations: 9 Recommendations
- The Police Response to Mass Demonstrations: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned
- Handling Large, Preplanned Events: Recommendations for the 2016 National Political Conventions
- Making Social Media Part of the Platform
- How to train for mass gatherings, protests and riots (eBook)
- Community-Police Engagement: Agency Considerations Checklist for Civil Demonstration Response
- Crowd Management - Model Policy, Concepts & Issues Paper, and Need to Know
- National Incident Management System
- 21st Century Protest Response Promoting Democracy and Advancing Community and Officer Safety
- Policing At Protests: Best Practices
- Protests & Public Safety: A Guide for Cities & Citizens
- How to Conduct An After Action Review
- After-Action Review and Reporting: An Introduction
- Staying Healthy in the Fray: The Impact of Crowd Management on Officers in the Context of Civil Unrest
- The Evolution of Protests & Their Impact on Law Enforcement Wellness (video)
- Virginia's Response to the Unite the Right Rally
- Maintaining First Amendment Rights and Public Safety in North Minneapolis
- After-Action Assessment of the Police Response to the August 2014 Demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri
- Preparing for and Responding to Mass Demonstrations and Counter-Demonstrations in Portland, Oregon
- Advancing Charlotte: A National Policing Institute Assessment of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Response to the September 2016 Demonstrations
- A Crisis of Trust: A National Policing Institute Report to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on the Los Angeles Police Department Response to First Amendment Assemblies and Protests Occurring May 27 – June 7, 2020
- Research Evaluation of the City of Columbus' Response to the 2020 Summer Protests
- City of Cleveland May 30, 2020, Civil Unrest After Action Review
- Omaha Civil Unrest Report
- Columbia Strong: A Critical Incident Review of the Columbia Police Department’s Response to Protests and Rioting on May 30-31, 2020
- Philadelphia Police Department’s Response to Demonstrations and Civil Unrest
- Police Response to the 2020 George Floyd Protests in Denver
- Investigation into NYPD Response to the George Floyd Protests
- City of Minneapolis: An After-Action Review of City Agencies’ Responses to Activities Directly Following George Floyd's Death
- Independent Review of the 2017 Protest Events in Charlottesville, Virginia
- Governor’s Task Force on Public Safety Preparedness and Response to Civil Unrest
