[lkrubner]

“Stop and watch“ is still intervention. Twice I’ve broken up what seemed to be incipient fights by stopping and staring intently at the aggressor. Unless they are drunk, they don’t want to be observed. They will walk away if someone is staring at them.

[ggreer]

I've had the opposite happen. Someone tried to smash my head in with a cinder block because he thought I might take his picture.

He was never caught.

[pbhjpbhj]

This has worked for me to.

I think realising you're being observed can break one out of a cycle of escalation to. That's worked _on_ me as well.