The write up disappointingly only sees the value in understanding swarm behaviors from the perspective of police controlling crowds, and not from the perspective of crowds learning better swarm behaviors to prevent such authoritarian control.
Crowds are pretty good at that kind of thing already - for instance, I remember some protests a few years back where the protestors responded to the common police tactic of 'kettling', by just running like hell and scattering every time the police tried to surround them.
It worked quite well, because the police would quickly get exhausted having to reposition in heavy armor every few minutes.
