#2011 riots

[dubmill]

North Finchley, London; 6.8.2011

[culturalarchitect]

I blame the parents! Why not hitting your grades has nothing to do with you.

Along with childhood obesity, teenage ennui and the English riots of 2011, the failure of all young people this summer not to achieve 100% in all their exam results can all be levelled at the doors of their wayward parents who clearly have not suffered long enough or hard enough in order to get their offspring to meet the highest GCSE grades that our pristine education system prides itself on.

If…

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[dirtfarm]

A bit of a throwback. A song about one Zac Chan. A good kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Zac turned himself in for his small part in that awful night. But the song will remain to remind us all that just one drunk spur of the moment decision may lead to some jerk making a crappy song about what happened.  That place? Downtown Vancouver. That time? Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. 

[waxyslittlesister]

#CutsHaveConsequences to the policing of London

#CutsHaveConsequences to the policing of London

Do you feel safe walking the streets of London? Do you feel that your police service is nearby, ready to attend if you need us? Nearly half of you said you do not see enough police officers on the beat where you live.

This is according to data from the Neighbourhood Confidence Comparator, a rolling survey of more than 12,000 Londoners by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, which showed…

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[perfectthoe]

2011 was an awful time in England. The majority of Black people were being peaceful and it was white people who made it all turn into a violent mess. The street I live on got turned upside down...by mostly white people who didn't really care about the killing of Mark Duggan. It's funny that the news would only use footage of the few black people and other poc who would be harming civilians and looting when I would be seeing the truth with my own damn eyes bc it was happening on my street. Sigh. RIP Mark Duggan.

[henrygruijters-blog]

Economics in Everything: Why were gangsters and police in Britain gunless?

Economics in Everything: Why were gangsters and police in Britain gunless?

I recently read an interesting article in by Alasdair Palmer in The Spectator about the “The rise and fall of the gunless gangster”. In the UK in the 20th century, there was a  that the lack of guns among criminals. This wasn’t due to the lack of availabillity of guns. In addition the penalties for being caught with an illegal firearm were significantly less severe then, than they are now. So why…

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