2019-09-03
44 分钟Good evening.
Fires are burning across large parts of London tonight.
Major disturbances at Tottenham in north London.
The trouble erupted after a protest at the fatal shooting of a man by police which turned violent.
The looting of London was on an industrial scale.
Houses and flats across the capital and other cities have been filled with an extraordinary haul of goods.
In August 2011, England experienced the largest outbreak of rioting in the generation.
The disorder began after the shooting of a young man, Mark Duggan, by police officers in Tottenham.
A protest two days later morphed into a larger disorder.
Over the next three days, riots spread rapidly across London and then to other urban centres in England.
In total, there was an estimated five deaths, 200 injuries,
3,000 arrests and over 200 million pounds worth of property damage.
Welcome to LSEIQ.
I'm James Rattie and this is the podcast where we ask social scientists and other experts to answer one intelligent question.
In this episode of LSEIQ, I ask what can we learn from the 2011 riots?
Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy LSE, co-wrote a major report called Reading the Riots.
He began by telling me where he was when the riots began.
So the riots occurred in August 2011 and like a lot of people, including the Prime Minister,
the Mayor of London, the Home Secretary and a number of others I share, almost nothing else with them.
I was on holiday.