Crowd counting is a technique used to count or estimate the number of people in a crowd. At ticketed events, turnstiles are often used to precisely count the number of people entering a venue. A turnstile, also called a baffle gate, is a form of Gate which allows one person to pass at a time At unticketed events, especially events that take place in the streets or a park rather than an enclosed venue, crowd counting is more difficult and less precise. For many events, especially political rallies or protests, the number of people in a crowd carries political significance and counts are controversial. A demonstration is an historically and geographically common form of Nonviolent action by groups of people Protest expresses relatively overt reaction to events or situations sometimes in favor though more often opposed A controversy or dispute is a commencement of a conflict between statements of accepted fact and a new or unaccepted proposal that disagrees with argues against For instance, the global protests against the Iraq war saw many protests at which widely differing counts were offered by organizers on one side and the police on the other. There have been considerable protests against the Iraq War in the buildup to and following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Police are agents or agencies usually of the executive, empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimatized use of force Another memorable incident occurred when Louis Farrakhan threatened to sue the Washington, D.C. Park Police for announcing that only 400,000 people attended the 1995 Million Man March he organized. Louis Farrakhan (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933) is the Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam as the National Representative In law a lawsuit is a civil action brought before a Court in which the party commencing the action the Plaintiff, seeks a legal or equitable remedy Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The Million Man March was a Political march convened by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in Washington DC on October 16
The most common technique for counting crowds at protests and rallies is dividing the area occupied by a crowd into sections, determining an average number of people in each section, and multiplying by the number of sections occupied.
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