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There was a study over 15 years ago about that and the findings were a bit sad. The psychology team doing the study found that the majority of interference was caused by persons who were 'left out' of the main activity because they had emotional issues or were otherwise not 'good enough' for joining the group in the opinion of organizers. That is a sad commentary on the administration of some first responder or 'assist' groups in passing over individuals who are interested in becoming part of a team but for one reason or another, were not asked to join. We are a society of 'differences' and we must all try to get along with everyone the best that we can and to make allowances. If a person is even somewhat qualified to do work for a team, that person should be given a chance to participate and if mistakes are made during exercises, the person should get a fair amount of mentoring to be able to participate and to feel welcomed... before an actual emergency takes place. However, the psychology team also found that there are instances where interference was caused by down right spiteful individuals who don't want to join 'assist' groups and try to make it hard on the group by disrupting things. Those individuals are the ones that the LAW should go after aggressively because they can and do cost lives.