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Hye Rin Bae

UK riots 2011: London police should learn from those in Manchester | Mail Online - 0 views

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Manchester UK riots london police

shared by Hye Rin Bae on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • In London the police have been adopting the modern, sophisticated approach of observing while criminals loot and riot.
  • In Manchester they have generally chosen the more old fashioned approach of arresting those involved.
  • In Birmingham the probability of a rioter ending up in a police cell would seem to be quite a bit higher than in the capital. In Nottingham and Wolverhampton the message is credible that the police will come and arrest anyone involved in rioting.
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  • Waiting until after the event and relying on CCTV is not enough. Yet that was the policy of the Metropolitan Police until last night.
  • surveillance
  • perpetrators
  • subsequently
  • Everything possible should be done to stop the damage taking place - not just wait until it as been done before acting.
  • funking
Kyu Won Shim

Britain Turns to Reckoning With Rioters as Cameron Faces Parliament - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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britain riot

shared by Kyu Won Shim on 11 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Thursday that over 1,200 people had been arrested, the bulk of them in London.
  • Britain’s second-largest city, where the police and political leaders worried about a potentially explosive new pattern of interracial violence that could be set off by the past days and nights of mayhem
  • Three young men of Pakistani descent were killed in Birmingham on Tuesday night when a car crashed into a group of residents who had gathered to protect local businesses from attack
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  • Meanwhile, politicians braced for the fallout from the convulsion of violence as Prime Minister David Cameron faced the most severe crisis of his 15 months in office.
  • While many Britons had initially blamed the violence on unemployed youth, however, one surprise was the presence of young men and women with regular jobs among the riot suspects lined up in police wagons outside courthouses in London and other cities
  • Ahead of the emergency House of Commons session on Thursday, Mr. Cameron declared a “fightback” against what he condemned as the “groups of thugs” who had driven the riots
  • Kyu Won Shim on 11 Aug 11
     
    The riot in Britain is getting more serious, and a lot of people were injured or died.
Na Young Kim

Flash Mobs: Is Technology to Blame? - International Business Times - 0 views

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shared by Na Young Kim on 23 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • increase of violent "flash mobs"
  • United States
  • Not all flash mobs are violent
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  • networking are connecting people
  • groups of people -- primarily young people -- are using the tools at their disposal to wreak havoc.
  • social media networks like Facebook and Twitter, or through text message, BlackBerry Messenger or e-mail.
  • leaving one unconscious
  • broken jaw
  • June, some gangs attacked pedestrians and people leaving restaurants,
  • robbed train passengers.
  • stolen goods.
  • easy to blame technology
  • networks are only a tool
  • Twitter, texting or other means be illega
  • Chile earlier this summer
  • students amassed in Santiago's Plaza de la Ciudadanía
  • broke into a choreographed and costumed dance
  • educational system, which they say is currently rotten and dead
  • technology is indeed a double-edged sword.
  • made these events easier to organize,
  • also made them easier to stop
  • 7-Eleven
  • robbed
  • terrifying riots that rocked England
  • over 1,000 have been charged.
  • technology
  • four years in a juvenile cent
  • Jordan Blackshaw, 20, invited about 100 people to an event called "Smash Down in Northwich Town,"
  • h Facebook.
  • , 22, created a group called "The Worthington Riots."
  • Cleveland, Ohio thinks such measures are inappropriate and legally questionable.
  • last weekend kept the streets of Philadelphia relatively quie
  • anyone 17 or younger must be home by nine p.m.
  • 18 must be indoors by midnight
  • 13 must be off the streets by 10 p.m.
  • The juveniles will face fines of upto $300.
  • Philadelphia, Penn
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