:00:10. > :00:17.Tonight on Panorama, the week that shocked the country. They smashed
:00:17. > :00:21.Argos, Tesco and Peacocks and they wanted to come this way. An orgy of
:00:21. > :00:26.looting and the moment an 11-year- old girl turns to crime. I believe
:00:26. > :00:31.we were watching a complete breakdown in law-and-order in our
:00:31. > :00:37.country. We reveal just how the police lost control of our streets
:00:37. > :00:41.to the mob. We were abandoned by the emergency services. We were
:00:41. > :00:45.under siege. They were out to murder us. We ask what is behind
:00:45. > :00:54.the violence? There are pockets of our society that are not just
:00:55. > :01:04.broken, but frankly sick. All the anger they felt, the angst, the
:01:05. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:29.passion, it erupted. How did the Tottenham, North London, 11 days
:01:29. > :01:37.ago. There's trouble. Someone's been injured. Paramedics race to
:01:37. > :01:47.help. But to no avail. Armed police from Operation Trident shoot dead a
:01:47. > :01:49.
:01:49. > :01:52.young black man, Mark Duggan. The fuse for the worst riot in a
:01:53. > :01:56.generation is ignited. This is where armed police caught up with
:01:56. > :02:04.him. Exactly what happened next is not at all clear, but we do know
:02:04. > :02:08.that a gun, not police issue, was later recovered from the scene.
:02:08. > :02:15.After Mark Duggan's death, the police watchdog spoke about an
:02:15. > :02:19.exchange of shots implying that Duggan had opened fire. Later, they
:02:19. > :02:22.admitted that was wrong. If what happened round here was legal and
:02:22. > :02:29.lawful, why didn't they tell the community, tell the family exactly
:02:29. > :02:34.what had happened? Why do we have to have all of this mystery? Why is
:02:34. > :02:40.everything shrouded in mystery? Mark Duggan was raised on the
:02:40. > :02:44.Broadwater Farm Estate. There was a sense of numbness and disbelief in
:02:44. > :02:48.the Broadwater Farm Estate this morning. In 1985, PC Keith
:02:48. > :02:55.Blakelock was hacked to death here. The riot triggered by the death of
:02:55. > :02:59.a black woman during a police raid. Now history repeats itself. Just
:02:59. > :03:03.two days after the shooting, Duggan's friends set out from
:03:03. > :03:13.Broadwater Farm. They are going to the local police station to demand
:03:13. > :03:15.
:03:15. > :03:22.answers. It wasn't a march. We didn't chant. We didn't sing. We
:03:22. > :03:26.strolled to Tottenham police station. You had placards? A few
:03:26. > :03:35.hastily-written banners. What did they say? Justice for Mark Duggan,
:03:35. > :03:43.that's what it said. After waiting for answers, patience runs out. The
:03:43. > :03:47.mood begins to turn sour. I think that the young men who were there
:03:47. > :03:51.felt really frustrated because it now appeared we had just spent four
:03:51. > :03:55.hours and we weren't further down the line. The young people lost it.
:03:55. > :04:00.They lost it. All the anger that they felt, the angst, the passion
:04:00. > :04:07.that they felt, it erupted. Stafford Scott does not condone the
:04:07. > :04:14.violence that followed, but the anger here is real. They reject the
:04:14. > :04:18.idea that they are responsible for a broken, sick society. We don't
:04:18. > :04:21.care what Cameron says. When people are doing the same thing in the
:04:22. > :04:26.Middle East, they talk about the Arab spring, the heroes and the
:04:26. > :04:31.rebels and they go there and they arm them. When they do it here,
:04:31. > :04:36.they say they are mindless thugs. We can see the hypocrisy even if
:04:36. > :04:42.the rest of the world can't. This is a democracy? I beg your pardon?
:04:42. > :04:47.Is it a democracy where police can kill your kids on the streets and
:04:47. > :04:53.they don't come to your home to account for it? We call it madness!
:04:53. > :05:03.The march has led to this, officers pull back leaving the rioters to
:05:03. > :05:13.
:05:13. > :05:20.laud it over the streets. Even the As Saturday nightfalls, chaos --
:05:20. > :05:29.Saturday night falls, chaos. The riot heads north towards a local
:05:29. > :05:36.landmark. Above the Carpet Right store, 26 flats. Omar, his partner
:05:36. > :05:40.Barbara and son Oscar lived on the second-floor. Barbara woke me up at
:05:40. > :05:45.1.00am and said there was a commotion outside. I didn't have
:05:45. > :05:52.any idea of the seriousness of it and so I got up and looked out of
:05:52. > :05:56.the window. At that time, I ask Omar, we have to phone the police.
:05:57. > :06:03.They didn't listen to us. I phoned the police. You spoke with them.
:06:03. > :06:10.They said to just try be safe. That's it. Barbara opens the window
:06:10. > :06:17.to plead with the rioters. I shout to them, "Look, can you please stop,
:06:17. > :06:22.children are living here" and they ignore me. She tries again. They
:06:22. > :06:27.saw you? Absolutely. What did you say? Don't do this. One of the
:06:27. > :06:34.rioters looked back up with Barbara and gave her his middle finger,
:06:34. > :06:38.laughing, basically. London is burning. The people who live here
:06:38. > :06:42.have to run or burn. We heard banging on our door. I opened the
:06:42. > :06:49.door, it was a youth who didn't live in the building saying, "The
:06:49. > :06:54.building has been set on fire, get out." I thought... Get out, get out,
:06:54. > :06:59.they were saying. No-one comes to the rescue. We were abandoned by
:06:59. > :07:09.the emergency services. We were under siege and they were out to
:07:09. > :07:25.
:07:25. > :07:28.I condemn categorically anything that harms other human beings. I
:07:28. > :07:32.condemn something that drives people from their homes with
:07:32. > :07:37.burning buildings with children in their arms. I grew up in this
:07:37. > :07:39.constituency. I grew up poor. I grew up without a father. I also
:07:39. > :07:47.grew up with pride and understanding the difference
:07:47. > :07:57.between right and wrong. This is wrong. Monday and the rioting
:07:57. > :08:07.
:08:07. > :08:17.spreads like wildfire to 21 Welcome to midsummer hell. Down the
:08:17. > :08:21.road from Tottenham, Hackney. Again, the police see control of the
:08:21. > :08:26.streets to the youth. The battle is on and the police struggle to
:08:27. > :08:32.contain the violence. They have a riot in Tottenham. Hackney wants to
:08:32. > :08:40.have one. Unfortunately, we have brought up this generation
:08:40. > :08:50.believing that whatever someone else has got, they have to have it.
:08:50. > :08:52.
:08:52. > :08:59.Nowhere to hide. Rioters running wild. London welcomes people from
:08:59. > :09:04.all corners of the planet. But look what happens to Asyraf Haziq, a
:09:04. > :09:10.student from Malaysia. His bike has been stolen, he's been beaten up,
:09:10. > :09:14.his jaw broken. He is rescued by "good" samaritans, but this isn't
:09:14. > :09:20.how the story goes in The Bible, helpless, he is robbed all over
:09:20. > :09:25.again. The Labour Party wants a public inquiry. After the Brixton
:09:25. > :09:29.riot 30 years ago, Lord Scarman's report puts some of the blame on
:09:29. > :09:34.high unemployment. That is not how the Government sees it now. These
:09:35. > :09:38.riots were not riots like the ones in the '80s. These were intensely
:09:38. > :09:41.criminal activities. These were co- ordinated. The mayhem that was
:09:41. > :09:49.created, the burning of the buildings and the violent attacks
:09:49. > :09:54.on the police, in some senses was a cover for the criminal activity.
:09:54. > :10:04.Word of where to loot spreads rapidly, fuelled by social network
:10:04. > :10:04.
:10:04. > :10:09.sites. As the police retreat, the rioters come out in droves. In
:10:09. > :10:16.Clapham Junction a reporter asked the rioters what do they think they
:10:16. > :10:20.are doing? We are getting our taxes back. What do you mean by that?
:10:20. > :10:25.taxes innit. A local resident questions police tactics. I was
:10:25. > :10:30.quite shocked to see about no more than 600 yards from where all the
:10:30. > :10:35.action was taking place, there were three riot vans full of police in
:10:35. > :10:39.riot gear and about five or six police cars parked up on the left.
:10:39. > :10:47.I asked one of them, "With the greatest of respect, it is all
:10:47. > :10:50.chaos down there and you are here doing nothing." He said they had
:10:50. > :11:00.been ordered to withdraw because the protection of life was more
:11:00. > :11:05.important than the protection of property. There is a sense that the
:11:05. > :11:09.police got caught hopping. They were caught on the hop. They didn't
:11:09. > :11:13.get this judgment right. tactics are going to be reviewed.
:11:13. > :11:18.That is right. We are accountable. Let's not forget the bravery of
:11:18. > :11:22.individual officers on the ground who were doing a tremendous job.
:11:22. > :11:32.There is a real feeling whatever we do, we will be damned if we do and
:11:32. > :11:32.
:11:32. > :11:36.we are damned if we don't. great British summer madness starts.
:11:36. > :11:46.This is just one of many shops ransacked in Hackney. We have
:11:46. > :11:48.
:11:48. > :11:58.obtained the CCTV. Great bargains in this place, everything must go!
:11:58. > :12:00.
:12:00. > :12:07.But what is driving the looters? Anger? Greed? This is about a
:12:07. > :12:15.(BLEEP) who got shot in Tottenham. Get real, black people! Get real!
:12:15. > :12:25.What are you up to? Is this fun? Is this fun? Everyone was going mad,
:12:25. > :12:30.like, chucking things, chucking bottles. It was good, though.
:12:30. > :12:38.seemed to be a lot of people who were piling in for the first time.
:12:38. > :12:42.It was opportunistic. Almost a sort of herd instinct. Kids that had
:12:42. > :12:46.never been involved in these activities suddenly thinking that
:12:46. > :12:55.they can help themselves, they had forgot the boundaries between right
:12:55. > :13:05.and wrong. Even in London's suburbs, young mobs go on the rampage. In
:13:05. > :13:05.
:13:05. > :13:09.the space of a few hours, plumes of smoke darken London's summer sky.
:13:09. > :13:18.This furniture store had stood here in Croydon since Queen Victoria's
:13:18. > :13:22.day. When looters set fire to it, the owner could only watch. 999
:13:22. > :13:27.said they couldn't help. I thought I've got to phone somebody, I can't
:13:27. > :13:32.phone me dad, he will be totally distraught. I will phone my brother.
:13:32. > :13:39.As I phoned Graham, I found myself going, "They are burning the shop,
:13:39. > :13:44.Graham, they are burning the shop." And your heart just - you know it's
:13:44. > :13:50.all gone. There is nothing you can do about it. Maurice Reeve is 80.
:13:50. > :13:55.He wants schools, police and politicians to do something. When I
:13:55. > :14:04.was a schoolboy, if we picked up a stone and threw it at a policeman,
:14:04. > :14:11.we were put in jail, we were imprisoned. You were marched off.
:14:11. > :14:19.Firemen are being attacked. The police are losing the battle. Close
:14:19. > :14:24.to the burning furniture store, the flats start to burn. One woman
:14:24. > :14:32.jumps for her life. This moment becomes the iconic image of London
:14:32. > :14:38.in 2011. The chap started screaming, "There is a woman still in there."
:14:38. > :14:43.As I was standing here, I could see two feet, two feet popping from the
:14:43. > :14:48.window and then the riot police and the small crowd were screaming to
:14:48. > :14:58.her, "Jump!" The leaping woman, Monica Konzyk, only moved to
:14:58. > :15:00.
:15:00. > :15:04.England from Poland in March this year. Jumping saves her life. In
:15:04. > :15:09.some parts of London, enough is enough. In Dalston, many small
:15:09. > :15:16.businesses are owned by Turks and Kurds. They are not afraid to stand
:15:16. > :15:26.up to hoodies here. They smashed Argos, Tesco and Peacocks and they
:15:26. > :15:27.
:15:27. > :15:36.wanted to come this way. Barber Mehmet takes to the streets. Team
:15:36. > :15:46.Kurd has sticks, metal bars and kebab knives. In Dalston, the
:15:46. > :15:48.
:15:48. > :15:53.phrase "community policing" takes on a whole new meaning. You don't
:15:53. > :15:58.class yourself as a vigilante? We always say to police, express to
:15:58. > :16:04.them that we are here not trying to be like take the law in our hands,
:16:04. > :16:09.but act with the law in a manner if we can, like, maybe chase them or
:16:09. > :16:16.get them together. And show them not to come here. If you come here,
:16:16. > :16:26.we are ready whatever it takes. Their tactics raised some troubling
:16:26. > :16:41.
:16:41. > :16:48.questions. But there is not much London wakes up to its biggest
:16:48. > :16:57.hangover for three decades. In Clapham Junction, another kind of
:16:57. > :17:04.crowd is gathering. The mood here is different. APPLAUSE The police
:17:04. > :17:11.don't get bricked. For days, users of Blackberry and Facebook people
:17:11. > :17:17.said fanned the flames. Now the social networks bring this clean-up
:17:17. > :17:24.army together. Enter a blonde in a hurry. Where did he get that brush?
:17:24. > :17:27.They love him. They love him not. The youths are running around
:17:27. > :17:31.stealing, yeah? Now they are looting all the stuff. There is
:17:31. > :17:36.reason for everything, Boris. Think about the amount of times you are
:17:36. > :17:41.cutting and cutting? You are putting up youth fees? I have so
:17:41. > :17:46.many friends who want to go to university. I understand. The Prime
:17:46. > :17:51.Minister, David Cameron, says it is not about budgets but morality. In
:17:51. > :17:56.the past he's warned about parts of Britain being broken, now he paints
:17:56. > :18:00.a darker picture. There's been a lack of focus on the complete lack
:18:00. > :18:08.of respect shown by these groups of thugs. There are pockets of our
:18:08. > :18:11.society that are not just broken, but frankly sick. Let's talk about
:18:12. > :18:17.this sickness of 1.4 million children living below the poverty
:18:17. > :18:24.line, or 1.1 million children living with substance-abusing
:18:24. > :18:28.parents. Shall we talk about that sickness, too? Some unlikely people
:18:28. > :18:35.object to the "Broken Britain" label, too. Is Britain a broken
:18:35. > :18:39.country? No, it isn't. Britain is not like some washing machine that
:18:39. > :18:45.is bust that is not functioning at all. What's happened with these
:18:45. > :18:54.riots and this looting is that it has exposed real issues about how
:18:54. > :18:59.kids are brought up, about boundaries, about discipline and
:18:59. > :19:04.about respect. He wants to come with me and see what is going on.
:19:04. > :19:11.Iain Duncan Smith's diagnosis? Parts of Britain are broken. Very
:19:11. > :19:14.high levels of violence. Big issues about crime and policing. Very poor
:19:14. > :19:21.educational results. Kids in two and three generational families
:19:21. > :19:27.that are lone parents, and have no set of values that we would
:19:27. > :19:32.recognise. It is changing that culture - and I would encourage to
:19:32. > :19:36.Boris to look at those issues - that you can't whitewash over that.
:19:36. > :19:41.What would Boris find? One in five young Britons are out of work and
:19:41. > :19:47.for young black people, it is one in two. There's also a large
:19:47. > :19:51.percentage of lone parents so are broken families also part of the
:19:51. > :19:56.problem? I think families have been disempowered. You hear some of the
:19:56. > :20:01.parents of these rioters talking about the situation and saying that
:20:01. > :20:11.somehow the children are out of their control as though it is not
:20:11. > :20:21.
:20:21. > :20:26.As London cools down, the violence flashes across the country. A rash
:20:26. > :20:33.of copycat riots. This is Wolverhampton last Tuesday, during
:20:33. > :20:38.working hours. The police station is on fire. In Nottingham petrol
:20:38. > :20:44.bombs rained down on a police station. West Bromwich starts to
:20:44. > :20:51.rock. Rioting becomes almost an everyday habit. In Manchester,
:20:51. > :20:59.youths go in for a bit of extreme shopping. But they didn't have it
:20:59. > :21:07.all their own way. The Manchester police send in snatch squads.
:21:07. > :21:11.Goodbye softly softly. Even so, the riots strengthen those warning we
:21:11. > :21:18.had become a nation of softies. police force that can't smack
:21:18. > :21:24.people any more for fear of it appearing on YouTube, youth workers
:21:24. > :21:29.employed by the thousand who achieve nothing at all. An
:21:29. > :21:36.education system where the teachers are scared of the parents after
:21:36. > :21:41.they have administered discipline to some revolting little scumbag of
:21:41. > :21:50.a child. Take the whole lot together and you have a destruction
:21:50. > :21:55.of law-and-order. What's become clear is that passions are getting
:21:55. > :21:58.toxic. To stop the riots from happening again, first we need to
:21:58. > :22:02.know why they took place but on this there is no agreement. For
:22:02. > :22:07.those on the right, it is a question of the collapse of moral
:22:07. > :22:16.values. For those on the left, it is the collapse in economic outlook
:22:16. > :22:21.for Britain's poorest people. have a whole load of clapped-out
:22:21. > :22:26.politicians who have come on and denounced this. The first time,
:22:26. > :22:30.certainly in my lifetime, a generation is growing up uncertain
:22:30. > :22:39.about their future. They are not certain they can get a home or a
:22:39. > :22:49.job. The politicians don't engage with them. In Birmingham last
:22:49. > :22:54.Tuesday, a fresh orgy of looting, for snacks, cheap hats, mobile
:22:54. > :22:59.phones and electronic toys. In Winson Green Asian men protect the
:22:59. > :23:08.neighbourhood from looters. Three men are knocked down by a car
:23:08. > :23:12.driven at high speed. Are they all dead? All three die. Friction
:23:12. > :23:20.between Birmingham's Asian and black communities reaches boiling
:23:20. > :23:24.point. That night across the city, police chase down looters, but they
:23:24. > :23:33.couldn't be everywhere. This could get very nasty indeed. They have
:23:33. > :23:41.caught him. They've got him. Then Tariq Jahan, father of one of the
:23:41. > :23:46.dead men, speaks for England. lost my son. Blacks, Asians, whites,
:23:46. > :23:52.we all live in the same community. Why do we have to kill one another?
:23:52. > :23:58.What started these riots? What's escalated them? I lost my son. Step
:23:58. > :24:08.forward if you want to lose your sons. Otherwise calm down and go
:24:08. > :24:21.
:24:21. > :24:30.People listen, the rioting stops Now police on the ground get to do
:24:30. > :24:35.their job. Thousands of suspects are arrested. We are going to take
:24:35. > :24:42.positive action and as much as they might enjoy rioting, we enjoy it
:24:42. > :24:47.even more locking them up. Perhaps most shocking of all - children
:24:47. > :24:56.also rioted. In Nottingham one girl is filmed trying to smash windows.
:24:56. > :25:00.She's only 11 years old. I have been in the force 29 years. I did
:25:00. > :25:09.the miners' dispute in '84. This beggars belief what went off last
:25:09. > :25:18.night. It was hard work. Police now say they expect up to 3,000 people
:25:18. > :25:25.will end up being charged. All this as put an enormous strain on the
:25:25. > :25:30.police when budgets across-the- board are being squeezed. The
:25:30. > :25:34.Labour Party and others say it is now wrong to go ahead with a �2
:25:34. > :25:38.billion cut to the police budget. We are surprised that they are
:25:38. > :25:41.still talking about cutting police numbers by 16,000 and if you think,
:25:41. > :25:48.that equates to the number of officers that have been keeping
:25:48. > :25:53.London safe over the last few days. That is worrying. The people who
:25:53. > :25:58.caused so much mayhem have been traipsing through this court and
:25:58. > :26:03.others across England. The cost? Six people dead. �200 million up in
:26:03. > :26:13.smoke. There is no getting away from it, this was a catastrophe.
:26:13. > :26:14.
:26:14. > :26:23.How can we prevent it from ever happening again? Lieu ham, South
:26:23. > :26:30.London, last Monday -- Lewisham, South London, last Monday night.
:26:30. > :26:37.Behind them, they say there is a culture of ruthless gangs.
:26:37. > :26:41.gangs that are run by these characters have become the
:26:41. > :26:45.alternative employment strategy for them. They consider the gang
:26:45. > :26:51.leaders to be heroes. The young people who live here feel distant
:26:51. > :26:55.from those in authority, trying to come up with solutions. When you
:26:55. > :26:58.got politicians slandering, talking about these areas are sick areas
:26:58. > :27:02.and there's people out there - people who do not know any better.
:27:03. > :27:06.We have to live here. We have to pick up the pieces. Whatever
:27:06. > :27:11.decisions they make, we will feel the effect of it. For the
:27:11. > :27:15.Government taking on gang culture is now a national priority, but
:27:15. > :27:22.then so is cutting the country's debt. Ministers say they are up for
:27:22. > :27:27.taking on the gangs, but will they provide the cash? That won't cost
:27:27. > :27:32.any extra money? I am simply saying what we need to do is figure out
:27:32. > :27:36.what it costs to do this. If we don't focus our money and our
:27:36. > :27:40.priority on eradicating this problem of street gangs, dealing
:27:40. > :27:45.with dysfunctional families and restoring some social sensibility
:27:45. > :27:48.back to parts of our communities, all the rest of what we try and do
:27:48. > :27:56.becomes almost impossible because they will drag us back down to
:27:56. > :28:02.where we were a week ago. Back in Tottenham, for some life will never
:28:02. > :28:07.be the same again. Whereabouts roughly? The whole of this block.
:28:07. > :28:14.Omar and Barbara's lives have been overturned in seven days. This is