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Asked by Whitty to John, Laura, Luke, Rob, Ruth on 15 Jun 2016.
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John Fossey answered on 15 Jun 2016:
Great question – psychology is the science I would chose and I’d establish a programme for disaffected youth and address the underlying problems before its too late
But in terms of crowd control – how about shining a big green light on them – not that I think colour therapy really is a science
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Ruth Patchett answered on 15 Jun 2016:
I like John’s answer! I think I’d want to be careful using science to stop them as a lot of these people’s problems stem back to before the violence and it would be good to step in earlier and help them learn to make better decisions. Could I distract them from fighting with cool scientific demos? It owuld be interesting to do a statistical survay to see what match results or events tend to result in violence and then we could distrubute officers a the games that were most likely to have violence (for example if there are more red cards is it a “dirtier” match therefore are fans more likely to get aggressive?).
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Robert Williams answered on 15 Jun 2016:
Use new technology sch as this….
http://www.howitworksdaily.com/experimental-crowd-control-riot-foam/ -
Laura Finney answered on 15 Jun 2016:
Ban one of the teams and make an example of them. it’ll soon teach the fans!
I find it hard to watch as I am a big rugby fan and think rugby players are much nicer. They have more respect for the ref and the fans all sit together, sing and drink and rarely fight. It’s a shame football can’t be like that.
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Luke Williams answered on 16 Jun 2016:
My technology of choice is the sonic weapon, or Long Range Acoustic Device, to use the lingo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device
Edit: Knew there was another one – the so-called heat ray:
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