One of the more striking such instances occurred in 1988, when Christian groups organized a boycott of companies owned by MCA, when its Universal Pictures unit released "The Last Temptation of Christ," which many considered blasphemous.
Clearly the industry can do more in such instances.
"Sadly, we are spending more and more time discovering such instances in schools and other facilities across the state," said Stan Eichner, the law center's litigation director.
Taking as its starting point a study of thwarted school attacks — the program claims that there have been more than 120 such instances in the last decade — it talks to experts in "threat assessment" about ways that schools can be made more safe without impinging too heavily on civil liberties.
However, more than 125 such instances were recorded last year by the NELFT NHS Foundation Trust – which provides services across the north-east London boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest – and in Essex.
If the police started to act more consistently in such instances, using the law, as they appear to have done in support of Criado-Perez, the number of cases where intervention was required would quickly reduce – and the DPP's fears of being swamped might turn out to be unfounded.
The UN assessed that in 2016 that there were at least "4,000 instances of children recruited and used in armed conflict by government forces and more than 11,500 such instances by non-state armed groups" including in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and the Philippines.
More worrying in such instances is the potential it has to discourage prospective partners.
