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Originally Posted by Stu
Die out in a couple of days?
It's become a major crisis, one that just cannot be swept under the carpet in a few days.
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The die out in a couple of days, was basically said out of hope rather than liklihood, but these things often just fizzle out after the initial energy has gone and go as quickly as they came.
The world is full of major crises these days, one just seems to lumber along after the other. I remember similiar riots in Brixton, Tottenham, Bristol and Bradford in the past and the severity of these was pretty bad at the time. The Tottenham riot was especially brutal, with the incident where a policeman was hacked to death. These were documented but ultimately swept under the carpet and not too much done about them, as most of these people in these areas still have the same gripe today.
Sure more officers from ethnic backgrounds has I think made some positive differences in how certain elements of society view the police, but by and large if and when there is some sort of real economic up-turn, the liklihood of any future riots is largely unlikely to rival those taking place at the moment.