Trouble is the Police are afraid of being prosecuted too, they need proper powers.
This is what peeves me off, and again I will mostly blame labour, in their time in charge the political correctness, sue everyone, cops can't hit anyone, kids can't be spanked era went insane and thats the problem.
But Cameron simply needs to realise, 85% of the country wants every one of these rioters in jail, and the other 15% won't even bother to vote, rather than hand out 5million every time a criminal gets injured, tell them to STFU, kick them in the face and charge them the court fee's.
I agree with you, I've said earlier in the thread the problem is, police don't want to take action any more, or not take action, they will be blamed for being too weak, or too hard, for innocent people being hurt in a police rush, or innocent people being hurt because the police backed off. Damned if they do, damned if they don't, so frankly, damned either way, save the ruddy country.
Cameron should get the army involved frankly because, we need people to mop up the streets who don't then have to go back on them the day after and pretend to get on and help everyone they just attacked, its a lose lose situation.
Army called in, the army can take the "blame" for being heavy handed and the police can get back to their normal jobs afterwards.
Though at this stage, the police need SOME wins against rioters to not be seen as completely toothless after this mess is sorted out.
Its a crap storm started as usual by Labour, blundered into by Tories who while generally having the right ideas(fix the economy) still have most of the same incompetant people from top to bottom in the government and make plenty of their own mistakes.