Fightback

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Fightback

British police was ready to invade the streets of London on Friday in order to make sure that the weekend does not hold in store more unpleasant surprises for the population of England, a few days after the chain of riots that took place in London, Birmingham or Manchester shocked the entire world, left four dead, more than a thousand arrested and the image of England stained one year before the beginning of the Olympics in this country.

The deputy commissioner of the Met Pol announced that 16,000 police officers would be deployed in the streets of capital in stead of the usual 2,500, maintaining that this is the largest police deployment in times of peace.

Alcohol-based street disorders are commonplace in urban Britain during the weekend even in times of peace.

British Prime Minister, who had to cut his vacation short to attend a cabinet’s emergency meeting on street violence, said that what happened in the streets of the great cities was “criminality pure and simple,” and added that the official response by the police was inadequate.

He said that Britain could not put up with this kind of reactions, and promised that the situation would be addressed with most serious approach.

Polls realized in those agonizing days revealed that the population favored by large percents the deployment of the military, and the use of water canon, and that they considered that the government handled very badly the situation.

More than 1,200 people were arrested and one person even turned herself in to the police out of guilty consciousness, and the courts had to work overnight to process the people who were brought before them from the streets in fire of the big cities.

On Thursday, the Prime Minister spoke before the parliament, which was convened in an extraordinary session caused by the events in the streets of London, saying that the fightback has begun, alluding to the fact that the government was about to implement measures able to prevent this kind of events from ever happening in London.

Targeting street gangs turned into a priority is one of the measures Cameron had in mind, after the entire business was triggered by the shooting of a black gang member, Mark Duggan, who was killed by a police officer in what seemed to be at first self defense. Later it was confirmed that Duggan had not fired the gun, even though the earlier reports showed that the policeman got hit himself during the skirmish.

Duggan’s killing sprang a protest which ended up in street fight and a series of looting and arsons throughout Tottenham.

Another move could be that the government could evict easier people from governmental housing for riots, a move that would require legal charges.

Building after Riots

There is a talk these days whether police officers should be allowed to carry guns while patrolling the streets. All these measures are attempting to give the government the feeling that they are in control of the situation after the hard criticism related to the way they handled the first stages of this crisis.

There is a debate over what started this series of riots, and the opinions went from the world economic crisis to the heat outside, and in truth they all made sense. The reason that set itself out of this debate was that the riots were at least encouraged by the staff cuts in the police forces.

Labor party, the opposition, urged the government to renounce the 20 percent cut of police funding.

Other reasons that were identified: the unemployment, the poverty and the sense of exclusion many people living in these neighborhoods have.

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