RIOT PREVENTION AND CONTROL: OPERATIONS RESEARCH RESPONSE

Abstract

In terms of alternative strategies, tactics, states of nature, utility measures, and criteria of operational effectiveness there are considerable differences between pursuing the objectives of: (1) simply maintaining public order; (2) maintaining public order within the constraints of a free society; and (3) improving systems for the 'administration of justice.' There is a real urgency implicit in the need for developing new concepts and acquiring new knowledge, techniques and tools essential to an understanding of the problems associated with civil disorder. Of equal importance, there is an urgent need for translating the new concepts, technologies and resources into viable institutions and programs that may bear little resemblance to 'traditional' patterns of action. Operations research offers an array of techniques that may be of considerable value in examining the probable consequences attendant upon breaking with traditional approaches to what appears to be a complex interrelationship of intransigent problems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 08, 1968
Accession Number
AD0672777

Entities

People

  • William W. Herrmann

Organizations

  • System Development Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Corporations
  • Crime
  • Criminal Justice System
  • Criminals
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Drug Abuse
  • Governments
  • Insurgency
  • Law Enforcement
  • Operational Effectiveness
  • Operations Research
  • Public Policy
  • Security
  • Societies
  • Task Forces
  • United States

Readers

  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Theoretical Analysis.