Riot By Christensen L.W. (Book)
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Description
Veteran street cop Loren Christensen explores one of the most frightening yet fascinating occurrences of modern society: riots. In Riot, Christensen leads you deep inside angry mobs and brings you along with the cops who clash head-to-head with them in the streets to show you in riveting detail what a riot is, how and why it happens, who participates and what it feels like to be in the middle of one. You will learn about:
* The powerful psychological influences that affect everyone involved, from street cop to bottle thrower to business owner
* Typical conditions that set the stage for a major riot, and common triggers that set the violence in motion
* The many kinds of riots -- race, sports, prison, political -- and how they are all equally intense, destructive and deadly
Through his own experiences as a military and big-city police officer on the front lines of riots interviews with protestors, cops, reporters, prison guards and a host of other players and the words of experts on crowd psychology and mob violence, Christensen paints a graphic portrait of the riot experience in the streets of America and around the world.
Loren Christensen's service as a military policeman in Saigon during the Vietnam War, his 25 years as a street cop in Portland, Oregon, and his training in the martial arts since 1965 have provided him with real-world perspective on truly functional self-defense techniques (and earned him a spot on the list of ''20 toughest streetfighters'' by Black Belt magazine). Visit his Web site: LWC Books.
Introduction
1. Riot: The Basics
2. Perceptions
3. Crowd Psychology
4. The Power of Anonymity
5. Sports Riots
6. Race Riots
7. Prison Riots
8. World Trade Organization
9. Miscellaneous Riots
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9781581606355 |
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140 x 215 mm, 274 pp. |
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