{"id":3882,"date":"2024-06-06T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:14:26","slug":"measuring-police-response-to-public-protest-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/measuring-police-response-to-public-protest-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring police response to public protest in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher: <\/strong>Emma Smith, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br \/><strong>Supervisor: <\/strong>Prof. Rod Alence , University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><p>South Africa experiences high levels of protest across various sectors. Police response to protests is varied and can lead to scenarios where excessive force is used on seemingly small or unthreatening protests.\u00a0 This research report asks the following: Which protest characteristics increase the likelihood of a protest being met with police repression?<\/p><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Emma Smith, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisor: Prof. Rod Alence , University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa experiences high levels of protest across various sectors. Police response to protests is varied and can lead to scenarios where excessive force is used on seemingly small or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}