When the Crowd Holds the Camera — Smartphones, Protest, and How the State Keeps the Peace. By O.P. Singh, the 41st Director General of Police, Haryana.
Front cover
Front cover
“Fear builds walls around crowds; trust builds stages for them.” — O.P. Singh
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A boy watches a peaceful procession curdle into a riot — and spends the next three decades of a police career working out why. In When the Crowd Holds the Camera, O.P. Singh sets down what thirty-three years in uniform taught him: force is now the surest way to lose a crowd, because every crowd today carries a camera. From Gustave Le Bon's Victorian mob to the smartphone uprisings of our own decade, he lays out HARMONY — a field-built doctrine for meeting the crowd not as a threat to be crushed, but as energy to be designed.
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