Protest And Inconvenience

There's been a lot of frustration from people caught up in long traffic queues or having their lives otherwise disrupted by Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion protests, with the government promising new regulations to curb them. Oscar Berglund, lecturer in international public and social policy at the University of Bristol tells Bloomberg Westminster's Yuan Potts and Roger Hearing, protesters see the need to be disruptive to make their points, and new laws are unlikely to be effective. Owen West, former police chief superintendent, and head of specialist operations, now senior lecturer in policing at Edge Hill University, joins to discuss the challenges of policing these kind of protests. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com