Simulating Police Containment of a Protest Crowd

• Main Authors: Posadas, Vector Ion, Teknomo, Kardi
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2015
• Subjects: Riot control; crowd containment; kettling; formation control; steering behaviors; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems; Peace and Conflict Studies; Social Justice; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/283; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0037549715621388?journalCode=simb
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper presents an agent-based computational model of the crowd containment tactic known as kettling, which involves cordons of police officers surrounding a crowd of protesters in order to restrict its movement. Our model uses steering behavior techniques to simulate a series of simple scenario...