[Margaret Pilkington]

The issue of resources doesn't come into it. And by saying that, it is almost accepting it, and thinking that it cannot change....it has to change or we will be back to the days when it wasn't safe to walk on the street at night for fear of brigands and robbers...back to beyond the days of Margaret Thatcher back to pre-victorian times...is that what you want?

These riots are the results of years...no, decades of pussy footing around issues that should have been dealt with in a much firmer way...for years parents, authorities, schools, the police and judiciary have taken the line of least resistance...but it has been dressed in all kinds of clothes...political correctness being one of them.
This has led to levels of respect falling...respect for parents, teachers, schools, the law......the people involved in this criminal activity, dressed up as riots, have had no firm boundaries in their lives, no role models, save for the z list celebs they want to ape....and many of them probably have no stable male influence in their lives.
Root causes......these are the root causes. The fabric of society has been weakened(probably forever) by taking the soft option.