Saturday, March 10, 2018

What actually are "crisis actors"?


CrisisCast  

"Award winning role play actors and film makers specially trained in disaster and crisis management.

"We dramatise* events for emerging security needs in the UK, Middle East and worldwide. Our specialist role play actors – many with security clearance – are trained by behavioural psychologists and rigorously rehearsed in criminal and victim behaviour to help police, the army and the emergency services, hospitals, schools, local authorities, government, private security firms, shopping centres, airports, big business, criminal justice departments, media and the military to simulate incident environments for life saving procedures.

"We use state of the art British film industry techniques, props and special effects to help trainers deliver essential, hands-on, high octane crisis response and disaster management training. We also work with trainee doctors, psychologists and care professionals." . . .
*British spelling.

I do recall reading the LA Times daily during the 80s, very often seeing on the Metro section front page, a photo of families with grieving, angry faces right after one of their members was shot by police during an altercation.
That would be the very same police that, during the Rodney King riots, stayed away from violent areas, likely from fear that any incident would be portrayed as racist.
Maxine Waters did so anyway, even though many people were nearly killed by her voters, simply by driving through her district. TD

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