The police should have reacted much more quickly and strongly.
All the last few days have done is shown that they can be overwhelmed far too easily. There was an intelligent element to a lot of these riots. Sure, the majority of them were kids, but in some areas fires were set because they knew it would tie the police up and stop them being able to arrest looters.

I doubt things will carry on for much longer as nine police forces are now sending help.
( Kroney, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 11:15, Reply)