Image source, Getty Images. Daniel Sartain-Clarke was caught in a looted Currys in Clapham Junction on the third night of the riots. Cars and shops set on fire as rioting swept across London.
Related Topics. Brixton Tottenham. Published 6 August Published 8 August After a third night of rioting and looting in London and other parts of England, there have been calls for police to be able to use water cannon and even for the army to help stop the violence.
There are several different tactics which have been used in the past to control riot situations - politicians and the public will be discussing many of these as they try and find a way to control the unrest. There have been suggestions on Twitter and other social networking sites that police should be able to use water cannon.
Water cannon have never been deployed on the British mainland but they are used by police in Northern Ireland. They are also used in many countries around Europe - Belgian police sprayed English football hooligans to stop violence at Euro Home Secretary Theresa May appeared to rule out water cannon, saying: "The way we police is by consent. Companies like Capita can play a key role not only in providing funding but in using their existing expertise to ensure that local entrepreneurs get the help they need to restart their businesses and reinvigorate local economies.
From freeing up our employees to assist in the clean-up operation in Manchester to providing a team to work pro bono on establishing and managing the High Street Fund, we aim to play our part in helping get small businesses across the UK back up and running. We hope that other businesses will lend their support to this important initiative. We hope that the initiative provides valuable support for many of the small businesses and high streets affected, helping them to return to doing what they do best.
Funds are aimed at helping businesses to carry out repairs, replace stock, and return to trading. These are guidelines only, with the specific nature of all claim assessed by The High Street Fund, which has the discretion to make grants on a case-by-case basis. The fund is not designed to provide additional money to traders already in receipt of insurance payments or other emergency funds. Site traffic information and cookies We use cookies to collect and analyse information on our site's performance and to enable the site to function.
Manage cookie preferences Agree. Home News and insights Press releases BP and the UK's leading companies and the Mayor of London come together to help small businesses recover from riots. BP and the UK's leading companies and the Mayor of London come together to help small businesses recover from riots Release date:. High Street Fund launched to aid businesses across the country affected by the disturbances BP along with a group of the UK's leading companies, the Mayor of London and local authorities have joined forces to help businesses across the country recover from the damage caused by this month's riots.
Fortunately for sociology, but unfortunately for the rioters, the police conducted a massive investigation in the months afterwards. In Britain, closed circuit television cameras are everywhere, and these were used to identify participants. The police kindly shared their data on 1, individuals who were arrested and subsequently charged with a criminal offense.
British postcodes are exceptionally detailed, and so we could match them with information from the Census, which provides comprehensive information on 25, neighborhoods in London. Our analysis looks at geographical variation within the city. We compare a neighborhoods where at least one rioter lived with b neighborhoods without rioters. How does your study confirm earlier studies of riots and in what ways does your study change our understanding of riots?
Our study is the first to provide rigorous evidence for the importance of police legitimacy. Many riots, like this one, are triggered by an incident involving perceived police brutality. But such a triggering incident could just be a pretext. But attitudes expressed afterwards could be a consequence of taking part in the riot and rather than a cause.
Our study, by contrast, measures police legitimacy from surveys conducted before the riot, which sampled the entire population.
This finding holds even after taking into account many other social, economic, and political factors. We challenge the accepted sociological wisdom that rioting is not associated with poverty. In London, rioters tended to come from the poorest neighborhoods, as measured by unemployment, adults lacking educational qualifications, workers in the lowest-paid occupations, overcrowded housing, and so on.
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