I was quite impressed by this when I was in Paris ~2 years ago. A drunken mob of about 50 people had massed outside my hotel to celebrate a soccer victory, and

I was quite impressed by this when I was in Paris ~2 years ago. A drunken mob of about 50 people had massed outside my hotel to celebrate a soccer victory, and they were blocking the street, being loud and a little aggressive, and doing some petty vandalism. In the US I feel like this would have induced an aggressive police response. Instead what happened is the Paris police closed the street a few blocks up, massed a response force nearby out of sight, and waited to see what happened. Eventually the mob dissipated, and two street sweepers and a team of cleaners came through and cleaned the entire area up. The following morning it was if the event had never happened.