Four basic types of organization may police crowds: military forces, paramilitary forces, militarized police units, and unspecialized police forces. These organizations use primarily two strategies: escalated force and negotiated management. In many countries, excepting Western-style democracies, the military, rather than the police, performs crowd control. There are many variants of this model, which differ primarily according to the level of force the military is willing to use. In some countries ruled by dictatorships, such as Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the whole might of the army, including the air force, has been used to quash any kind of public demonstration against ...(100 of 29314 words)