Understanding the Military and Police Mindset regarding Civil Unrest

[PeoViejo]

"1-3.
Insurgency in the most basic form is a struggle for control and influence, generally from a position of relative weakness, outside existing state institutions. Insurgencies can exist apart from or before, during, or after a conventional conflict. Elements of a population often grow dissatisfied with the status quo. When a population or groups in a population are willing to fight to change the conditions to their favor, using both violent and nonviolent means to affect a change in the prevailing authority, they often initiate an insurgency. "

http://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf

[unhappycamper]

1. I'd rather start looking at what caused the problem.

I thought we passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 for "prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin by federal and state governments as well as some public places."

Evidently we need a new Civil Rights Act of 201? to restate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

If we do this, can we also trash gerrymanding in congressional districts? As well as all the purges on (mostly non-white) voters?

[PeoViejo]

2. Agreed, bbbbut..

We also have to understand how the Authorities regard Civil Unrest, and their ways of dealing with it.