right... there is a huge urban problem.. there are loads of youths with no intention of doing daily work.. they get by on petty crime & dole handouts. then every twenty or so years, something like this happens & boom!! riot time again... unfortunately, the police get branded as racists because of the unfortunate statistic that if a lot of petty street crime is commited by a certain ethnic, so that is the group they target. its simple statistics, but there are a lot of firebrand 'community leaders' who think that even though less crime is commited by other different ethnic groups, the police should leave their community alone... & these days, someone who does something horrific & stupid, Raoul Moat etc, gets followed on facebook like some modern day robin hood, and then these idiots pour onto the street to se what trouble they can cause.