Music festivals are often the highlight of summertime, but they are also spaces increasingly policed for drugs, pickpockets, sexual assault, and terrorist attacks. The pop-up nature of festival spaces creates a tension between organizers ensuring safe environments and festival-goers seeking community and fun. We conducted an online survey of festival-goers to determine their safety concerns and feelings about security measures. The biggest safety concern was authorities, including police, private security, and surveillance. We found significant differences between males and females. Females had more concerns about personal safety and males had negative attitudes about surveillance and security—perhaps reflecting a male privilege. The negative attitude towards surveillance and police was common across demographic groups but stronger in males. A striking finding is that 87% of our participants felt that the ethos of a festival best creates a feeling of safety, while surveillance changes the nature of these public spaces—56% of our respondents felt it creates a bad vibe and 44% said it causes anxiety. We speculate that this sentiment parallels the Defund the Police movement following the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States—community is key to a safe city and surveillance is viewed as creating negative spaces.

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音乐节的监督、信任和监管

音乐节通常是夏季的亮点，但它们也是越来越多地因毒品、扒手、性侵犯和恐怖袭击而受到监管的场所。节日空间的弹出性质在确保安全环境的组织者和寻求社区和乐趣的节日观众之间产生了紧张关系。我们对参加音乐节的人进行了一项在线调查，以确定他们对安全的担忧和对安全措施的感受。最大的安全问题是当局，包括警察、私人保安和监视。我们发现男性和女性之间存在显着差异。女性更关心人身安全，而男性则对监视和安全持消极态度——也许反映了男性的特权。对监视和警察的消极态度在人口群体中很普遍，但在男性中更为强烈。一个惊人的发现是，87% 的参与者认为节日的精神最能营造一种安全感，而监控改变了这些公共场所的性质——56% 的受访者认为它会营造一种糟糕的氛围，44% 的受访者表示引起焦虑。我们推测，这种情绪与美国黑人的命也是命抗议活动之后的撤资警察运动相似——社区是安全城市的关键，监视被视为创造负面空间.