Two distinct campus events – large scale crowds and hate incidents – pose significant challenges and require campus leaders and policy agencies to respond quickly and without advance notice.

Law enforcement responses may be rapid, but their impact can be long-term. Campus policymakers, campus safety/police/security, and outside law enforcement agencies can reduce the likelihood of injuries, arrests, and loss of trust by developing a shared, coordinated understanding for addressing large gatherings and hate incidents in advance of their occurrence.

This guide created by The Divided Community Project at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law is designed as an agenda to support planning for unusually large and intensely emotional crowd events or targeted hate incidents and with the understanding that organizers will modify the agenda to fit the size of their institutions, the preparation that has already occurred, and their projects for challenging events. 

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