Passion and Control: Maintaining Public Safety in Times of Protest

The past few months have seen political and moral discourse reach dangerous new boiling points on a variety of fronts, and now, a series of suspicious devices have been sent to politically prominent people, congressional offices have been vandalized and increasing...

Addressing Police Tactics at the Charlottesville Protests

On August 18, 2017; A. Benjamin Mannes appeared on an in-depth report about the Charlottesville Protests on the One America News Network. Mannes was asked to comment because of his experience as a special event security consultant and member of the DC Metropolitan...

Protesters: It’s called a permit

My November 10, 2016 column in The Hill addresses the post-election protests that have popped up across the nation, and why local law enforcement is not enforcing the requirement for demonstrations to have permits equally. Has “looking the other way” on...