Also I'd dispute that they've been "inept". Their primary concern is to protect public life and limb; property is secondary. If the best way to stop a bunch of people attacking other people is to let them work off their aggression on property, get their faces on CCTV, and then go round and arrest them in the morning when they have much less chance of escape, than so be it.
That said, "riot" is mostly innacurate: What's happening is mostly mass burglary or looting.
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Date: 2011-08-09 10:25 pm (UTC)That said, "riot" is mostly innacurate: What's happening is mostly mass burglary or looting.