Riots in Tottenham, London! (NO RACIST COMMENTS)

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Stretch said:
Seeing that it's very hard to see how they can bring the situation under control.

20 police turn up, the kids drop their goods and start running. The police may catch a couple. The rest are free to cause more trouble elsewhere. If you scale this situation up all over London it's a huge challenge.

More to the point where are you going hold all the people that are arrested. There just isn't the cells or man power to process that many arrests, and even if they can the quality of the evidence against them is going to be so poor they're unlikely to be convicted.

The police have a bust night ahead of them.
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Honestly this is where the Army should come in, logistics, man power, drivers, trucks, theres got to be a decent location they can take everyone arrested to be "held" for a day or two while the police deal with everyone, then process them one by one.

Somethings got to give, maybe just maybe the pure numbers out on the street will have people not bothering to show up tonight, or no where near as many.

But the tactics used need to be better, its not easy but they need to box in different ends of a street, bottle the rioters up in the middle and slowly take them out one by one giving most of them no way to escape. As you said the charge at them, so they just run up the road and smash up another shop is a never ending game of cat and mouse that mobile people without riot gear on aren't ever going to win.
 
Some states in the US are trialling drugs tests for welfare claimants... I wonder how well that would go down here.
 
StriderX said:
Curfew...Yes because thats going to do a lot...
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The law abiding people will stay inside, leaving scummers and police on the streets. Simple. People who disobey a law (in this case, a curfew) are then in the same pool of people rioting and looting? One group for Police to deal with.
 
Nerusy said:
Good point by a restaurant owner on sky news currently.

These yobs think they got it tough, got to a developing country and sh** bricks as to how hard it is to live there >_<
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i havent been listening to thesky news thing, but i was about to post the same thing. all the scum saying they are doing it because they are poor should be deported to ethiopia, or some other country in as much poverty
 
StriderX said:
Yes because thats going to do a lot...
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Why not? Curfew is the classic way to deal with these things. If you're out after the curfew time then you're the bad guy. Makes it easy to prevent collateral, and easy to arrest the infringers.

If the rioters all hide indoors then that's the object isn't it? You've stopped the looting. Then keep the curfew until you can arrest all those who're responsible.

Problem is the liberal section of the public and the public freedoms people would never stand for a curfew. OMFG RIGHTS INFREINGEMENT.
 
Some fat tart 'charity worker' on Sky News now blaming the cuts for everything and it's not the fault of the poor young people. Grrr.
 
Not sure as the to accuracy of this, but someone mentioned there was a police cordon across either southwark or blackfriars bridge. no idea if it's true or not though
 
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Even the birds are looting now!
 
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