1. Questioning Modern Technology In Crowd Control
... another officer. Colonel Rex Applegate's 1976 publication "Kill or Get Killed" discusses various methods for subduing mobs. Most of the accepted methods involve either killing or seriously injuring rioters through hand-to-hand combat or by using a weapon. For example, the Bridge of Nose Blow will "crush the most delicate bones of the facial structure. Delivered at the bridge of the nose ... a possibility."(Applegate 1975: 27) Subduing a rioter is certainly the goal of any law enforcement official but it should not have to require smashing bones in their face. Police should learn hand-to...
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