The
UK riots , looting, arson and burglary of domestic property has
sparked condemnation by the police and politicians, but the politics
involved means that there will be very little action taken against
this sort of organised crime.
The ConDems set the scene when they came to power, they decided
to close a third of all courts: good news if you are a criminal,
the chances of you being taken to court had just been reduce by
33%. The ConDems decided that long term criminals would be let
out early, good news for career criminals. Then the ConDems decided
to cut the police force budget, now if these 3 things don’t
help to increase crime, I don’t know what will.
We heard on T.V. last night Ken livingstone , the former mayor
of London put one of the causes down to a dis-affected, demoralised
group who were marginalized with no chance of ever working, or
of making anything of their lives. Which is probably true to some
extent, but what he was trying to say was that these people, who
have no prospects of ever getting a job, would be easily led into
crime.
Residents were denying reports that these were young teenagers
and children; they confirmed they were teenagers and adults committing
organised crime.
The Met police have 32,000 police on the beat, last night they
were assisted by officers from 9 other forces and the London transport
police. The police managed to deploy only 6,000 officers to police
the arrears under attack.
From the pictures shown on TV and the commentary which accompanied
them, along with the grievances from the general public, there
must have been 5,900 police deployed between 200 yards and a quarter
of a mile away from the looting, arson attacks and burglary.
The film crews did show two groups of police in riot gear holding
2 separate lines to contain the organised gangs, but the police
were well outnumbered and taking a beating.
A Debenhams store was raided and looted for 90 minutes; you could
see on the T.V. footage 3 or 4 police, who had obviously been
caught up in the riots while on the beat. They just stood there
helpless. At the same time the T.V. crew were showing the looting
of Debenhams they were reporting on a shop opposite which had
been set alight. The shop had flats above. The few police who
were there couldn’t do anything, they were outnumbered several
100 to 1, had no protection, and had they tried to intervene,
they wouldn’t have stood a chance against that mob of rioters.
There will be many questions asked of the police, why didn’t
they take a more active roll, why were they deployed so far away
from the actual rioting, why weren’t more police officers
issued with riot gear, etc. There’s no doubt they were dealing
with organised criminals, who were probably armed, unlike the
students who were in the main law abiding and unarmed protestors.
The politicians and the Lord Mayor of London will face a barrage
of criticism. Why did Cameron think his holiday was more important
to him than his country, why did he think it perfectly alright
to enjoy a peaceful relaxing holiday, while the electorate were
fearing for their lives, where rioters were ruling parts of the
capital, when looters and arsonist were in control, and burglars
were allowed to terrorise people in their own homes. Why was Boris
Johnson leaving London to burn while he sunbathed?
David
Cameron recalls parliament to discuss the riots.
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