Maintaining the status quo
Simon Alderson examines the role of security firms in managing activist protests
The ‘friendly threat’ that activists pose to event disruption is often incredibly difficult for security firms to spot. Although security measures can be in place such as body searches and checkpoints, activists often can get around these by concealing banners and often small items such as glitter or glue that they use to cause disruption. A balance always needs to be struck between how intrusive searches are as it is almost impossible to . . .
