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Black Panther Party — Part 34
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{t is an insoluble problem tor the police in the labyrinthian terram
of the urban guerrilla, to get someone they can't see, to repress
someone they can’t catch, to close in on someone they can't find.
Our experience is that the ideal urban guerrilla is one who operates
in bis own city and knows thoroughly its strects, its neighborhoods,
its transit problems, and other peculiarities.
The guerrilla outsider, who comes to a city whose corners are
unfamiliar to him. is a weak spot and if he 1s assigned certain opera-
tions, can endanger them. To avoid grave errors, it is necessary for
him to get to know well the layout of the streets.
Mobility and Speed
To insure a mobility and speed that the police cannot match. the
urban guerrilla needs the following prerequisites:
a} mechanization;
b) knowledge of the terrain:
c) a rupture or suspension of enemy communications and transport:
d) light arms.
By carcfully carrying through operations that Jast cnly a few
moments, and Jeaving the site in mechanized vehicles. the urban
guerrilla beats a rapid retreat, escaping persecution.
The urban guerrilla must know the way in detail and, in this sense.
must go through the schedule ahead of time as a training to avoid
entering alleyways that have no exit. or running into traffic jams. or
becoming paralyzed by the Transit Department's traffic signals.
The police pursue the urban guerrilla blindly without knowing
which road he is using for his escape.
While the urban guerrilla quickly [lees because he knows the
terrain, the police lose the trail and give up the chase.
The urban guerrilla must launch his operations far from the logistics
base of the police. An initial advantage of this method of operation
is that it places us at a reasonable distance from the possibility of
persecution, which facilitates the evasion.
In addition to this necessary precaution, the urban guerrilla must
be concerned with the enemy's communication system. The telephone
is the primary target in preventing the enemy from access to in-
formation by knocking out his communication system.
Even if he knows about the guerrilla operation. the enemy depends
on modern transport for his logistics support. and his vehicles neces-
sarily lose time carrying him through the heavy traffic of the large
cities,
It is clear that the tangled and treacherous traffic is a disadvantage
for the enemy, as it would be for us if we were not ahead of him.
If we want to have a safe margin of security and be certain to
leave no tracks for the future, we can adopt the following methods:
a) purposely intercept the police with other vehicles or by ap-
parently casual inconveniences and damages: but in this case the
vehicles in question should not be legal nor should they have real
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