CONCERT RISK PYRAMID BY CROWD DRAW

ELEVATED RISK TIER

Annual Site/Group Assessment

Tier One Access Controls

+State Police and/or National Guard

Rage Concerts 

Rap Concerts

Heavy Metal

Mosh Pit

Shock Rock

MEDIUM RISK TIER

Bi-Annual Site/Group Assessment

Tier Two Access Controls

COunty Police and/or City Police

Ticket Control/Assigned Seating

Grunge 

Rock

Country & Western

LOW-RISK TIER

Site Assessment Every Three Years

Private Security Guards

Serpentines & Barricades 

Stanchions & Ropes

Classic Music Festivals 

Operas

Chamber Orchestra

Ballet

Family/Children's Shows

In these times of mass shootings and terrorism regular police patrols should be heightened on the exterior of the venue and in surroundings parking lots.

Indoor pyrotechnical devices and shows require the presence of professional firefighters to avoid mass injury and death as evidenced in the Great White concert at The Station nightclub in Rhode Island where 100 died and 230 were injured.

The law enforcement contingents in the medium and elevated tiers should be commensurate with the size of the crowd. For example, it would have taken an army of security to protect "the mother of all concerts" by Rod Stewart on the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where three-and-a-half-million attendees were present in 1994.