No, I know some people who were affected as they lived quite near some of the apparent hotspots and they are very angry that the army wasn't called in immediately to shut the areas down.
As for why the army wasn't called in and what more could have been done has NOTHING to do with the practices of the third world. It has to do with improving the protocols currently in place in the first world.
Riots are a touchy thing and you can't just have a default "balls-to-the-wall" response to them. A bad response to a riot can prolongue them and make them worse. Eg. the L.A. area riots that resulted from a gradually increasing trend of bad police responses to a long streak of civil disobedience.
And I'm not generalizing anything. I'm making an assessment of your opinion based on your stated opinions on this matter here and in the other thread on the Vancouver riots.
I was sat there last night ready to have a riot in my kitchen as I watched SKY news.
The Police do not have access to water cannon. I was begging for martial law to be declared. The Police were adopting a strategy to keep the various groups from meeting up and potentially creating a stronger more disruptive force.
The Police do have access to tear gas. I don't know if this is contraindicated with youths?
The British Police have always prided there ability to Police openly in conjunction with the community. Maybe this needs to be looked at.
It soon became clear that the violence that was unleashed had very little to do with the shooting of Mark Duggan. One of the SKY reports who lives in Camden stopped to teenage girls coming out of a clothing shop. He asked "Why are you doing this"?
" To get our taxes back". I mean for FS have either of these two children actually contributed to the tax system?
There is a bigger problem that needs to be addressed in English society.
I am really sad today to consider myself an Englishman. How has society become so broken.
Interestingly the disturbances seem to have been co-ordinated via social networks. Is it possible to close down these sites during public disorder?
The irony of this whole situation, is that if one of the scumbags involved in last nights events is mugged or attacked or needs protection. They rely on the Police.
I am immensely proud of the Police officers who risked their lives last night. They walked a line that few of us have to tread.
I don't blame the fire services for not attending the fires, another sad English phenomena is that Fire crews are attacked when they attend blazes. Often sabotage fires are set just to draw the Fire service in to an ambush.
My heart go's out to all of the people who have lost their homes and lively hoods.
Nelly
Thats the sort of thing you come to expect in 3rd world countries not in England :shakehead:
