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Northen America cities are really not geometrically in favour of law enforcement. L1 geometry + size of blocks gives an unfair advantage to the rioters. Which m
by SFjulie1 12y ago
Northen America cities are really not geometrically in favour of law enforcement. L1 geometry + size of blocks gives an unfair advantage to the rioters. Which means law enforcement have to resort to excessive violence to squash demonstration, and the government to use excessive measures to protect social peace (such as spying their own citizens).
Designing cities for cars and not the "humans beings" may have been a cost.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoAren't North American cities generally grid based? wouldn't this make it easy for police to for lines, block off several streets, and contain rioters within a block or two?
- Lancey 12y agoSee New York where protesters could easily avoid cops by creating multiple incidents at once and dispersing in different directions when police resistance arrives. It takes too long for an organized group to move through the city and that can be used to spread police thin.
- k-mcgrady 12y agoThat's more a problem with the size of the cities that the layout though.
- TheCoelacanth 12y agoI dislike the design of American cities as much as the next guy, but this seems like a huge stretch.