Why not use less aggressive tactics, such as waiting for the suspect to leave, surrounding a house and calling the suspect out?
Troops were told to use less aggressive tactics and to make a sincere effort to win over and protect the local population.
It is difficult to assess whether less aggressive tactics would ultimately have been more successful, but it is likely that they would have kept Chen out of trouble.
Verheyden-Hilliard, whose organization is also representing protesters across the country in addition to those arrested in Brooklyn, isn't at all convinced that citizen video has forced police to adopt less aggressive tactics.
They likely would have chosen less aggressive tactics, for example, by bringing a much smaller group of plaintiffs (even one of China's lawyers most experienced at suing the state has never filed a case with over 700 plaintiffs).
In my recent book, The Failure of Counterinsurgency: Why Hearts and Minds Are Seldom Won, I explain why these less aggressive COIN tactics have a better chance of succeeding when fighting guerrillas than simply blasting away with heavy firepower.
He was like, 'I don't have to do this if I don't want to.' " Far less aggressive in his tactics, Mr. Taylor quietly gave up painting in 1984, when he found it hard to pay for paint and canvases.
Jayaraman said the National Restaurant Association has been less aggressive in its tactics toward workers' rights advocates over the past year, and pointed to editorials by The New York Times and USA Today in support of one fair wage for workers as signs that the topic had reached critical mass. .
Last Friday, FBI director James Comey suggested that increased scrutiny of police actions following numerous police killings of unarmed citizens may have led to an increase in violent crime as officers become less aggressive in their policing tactics.
FBI director James Comey has cited anecdotes to support the theory, and has been joined by Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chuck Rosenberg, head of the US Drug Enforcement Agency, in blaming an increased focus on police tactics for making officers less aggressive.
