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Originally Posted by pro4nut
It was the 3rd night, started Saturday.
Water cannons can't be used as NO police force on the mainland have them, they are only deployed and on hand in Northern Ireland.
Finally early this morning they started using the armed response armoured trucks to charge them the down, sadly not many of them available.
The police force in London is tiny in comparison to the amount of people rioting there just arent enough of them.
What needed to be done was to shut down the underground and bus networks. I agree that the Police needed to use more force but if they do things will escalate these kids are not using guns yet, but they have them and if that happens we are in a world of pain.
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I didnt realise that UK police dont have water cannons. Perhaps they should of issued them with bananas( monty python) instead.
I know it exploded into mass rioting but I think the police should of reascted quicker but as you mentioned there resources were limited. And for that reason the police didnt have the manpower to protect the fire engine crews from going in and controling the fires.
Couldnt they have brought in the army, was that an option?