Top Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers went to Chicago this week to take notes on how that city's force handled large protests at the NATO summit. CMPD Deputy Chief Harold Medlock expects demonstrations of similar size and tone during the Democratic National Convention in September. "I saw a lot of things that gave us some great ideas about how we manage crowds and de-escalate some of the crowd behaviors," says Medlock. "But I'm not gonna tell you what those are (until after we've employed them at the DNC)." The NATO protests were largely peaceful.
Top Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers went to Chicago this week to take notes on how that city's force handled large protests at the NATO summit. CMPD Deputy Chief Harold Medlock expects demonstrations of similar size and tone during the Democratic National Convention in September. "I saw a lot of things that gave us some great ideas about how we manage crowds and de-escalate some of the crowd behaviors," says Medlock. "But I'm not gonna tell you what those are (until after we've employed them at the DNC)."
I was sitting in my office reading the news that third-party Americans Elect failed to secure a viable candidate when I got an e-mail from Julie Rose of WFAE, hoping for some insight on the issue.
