{"id":34701804,"date":"2009-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2009\/07\/25\/Why-cops-should-trust-the-wisdom-of-the-crowds-life\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T06:49:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T06:49:44","slug":"Why-cops-should-trust-the-wisdom-of-the-crowds-life\/","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=34701804","title":{"rendered":"Why cops should trust the wisdom of the crowds &#8211; life -&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sustuff\">Stumbleupon Review of : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327171.400-why-cops-should-trust-the-wisdom-of-the-crowds.html\">http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327171.400-why-cops-should-trust-the-wisdom-of-the-crowds.html<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/to\/2XcT88\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327171.400-why-cops-should-trust-the-wisdom-of-the-crowds.html\/t:4aefa12b6d65b;src:reviews\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bunty.tv\/images\/smallstumble.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/library_of_congress\/3295494764\/\" ><br \/><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3438\/3295494764_2d1c4cd042.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-family: Verdana, Sans-Serif; width : 600px; margin : 10px auto; padding : 60px 65px 45px; color : #ca8; line-height : 1.5em; background:  url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-top-clear.png) no-repeat 10px 10px; width : 500px; margin-left : 75px;\">The &quot;unruly mob&quot; concept is usually taken as read and used as the basis for crowd control measures and evacuation procedures across the world. Yet it is almost entirely a myth. Research into how people behave at demonstrations, sports events, music festivals and other mass gatherings shows not only that crowds nearly always act in a highly rational way, but also that when facing an emergency, people in a crowd are more likely to cooperate than panic. Paradoxically, it is often actions such as kettling that lead to violence breaking out. Often, the best thing authorities can do is leave a crowd to its own devices.<b style=\"display : block; background : url(https:\/\/secure.uk-h.net\/b\/box-bottom-clear.png) no-repeat bottom right; height : 60px; width : 100%; position : relative; top : -10px; left : 50px;\"><\/b><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review of : http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327171.400-why-cops-should-trust-the-wisdom-of-the-crowds.html The &quot;unruly mob&quot; concept is usually taken as read and used as the basis for crowd control measures and evacuation procedures across the world. Yet it is almost entirely a myth. Research into how people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=34701804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":""},"categories":[],"tags":[271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34701804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34701804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34701804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34701804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34701804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34701804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}