We all know that the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, triggered a tsunami of protest activity across the United States. Just how large and broad was that wave of protests, though? How destructive was it? And how did police and right-wing counter-protesters respond to it? The Crowd CountingContinue reading “Contours of the George Floyd Uprising”
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Trump-Era Themes in U.S. Protests
Under the Trump administration, what did Americans protest about? The Crowd Counting Consortium’s compiled dataset offers a few ways to answer this question. Each of the more than 61,000 records in the dataset so far represents a separate event, and each of those records includes a field summarizing what the event was about, as understoodContinue reading “Trump-Era Themes in U.S. Protests”
Hello, World!
Welcome to the blog of the Crowd Counting Consortium, a.k.a. CCC. CCC is a public-interest and scholarly project that documents political crowds in public spaces in the United States. CCC emerged in early 2017 from an improptu collaboration between Professors Erica Chenoweth (Harvard University) and Jeremy Pressman (University of Connecticut), who both found themselves thatContinue reading “Hello, World!”
Counting Crowds 