I do not disagree with anything said, and i also am glad there is a serious discussion not a hand bag fight!
I think the army should be drafted in to help reassure public and "back-up" the police. When i mention the army should be brought in, i didnt mean drop the police! The police could probably use a lot of the vehicles the army have and the knowledge they have!
Now, i definitely do not want to go down the road of Black's and White's......personally i dont care what skin colour you are or where you are originally from! A CRIME IS A CRIME, and it needs tougher measures to solve it! In no way does that mean go in guns blazing, they need to look at non lethal measures but measures tougher than running at them with a bit lid!
On the water cannon that was mentioned, i am sure i seen it, BUT this was the discussion of using one as per the Irish policing. And the video clip was a clip from Ireland
May be wrong, didnt watch it all night
They are using Blackberry Chat to organise this because it is encrypted so police etc cannot trace anything, things like facebook and twitter are getting used to cause diversions saying its happening in a place where its not to distract police.....i agree with the reporter last night that BB should shut down chat service between 6pm and 6am (or something along these lines) to stop this secret chat the police cannot monitor......
Edit: Having 16,000 police in london was all good, what about the police that left manchester etc to be in london when manchester actually needed them? London was not stretched for resources but clearly other towns will be as numbers in the police for that area drop....this is why i think army personnel need to be used to help numbers instead of pulling them from other already stretched forces. plus 20% cuts to police force over the next 4 years.....BIG MISTAKE!