Meanwhile some forces have tried to improve relations with local communities, even if the results are mixed: in Handsworth, where rioters attacked the police station as well as ransacking shops and trashing cars, allegations of police thuggery persist.Perhaps the most important variable of all has got worse.
The insides are reminiscent of a crime scene with items strewn haphazardly across the floor, as if ransacked long ago.
Their decision came after detectives had initially claimed she was instrumental in numerous robberies in which gangs of up to eight people dressed as police officers assaulted homeowners as they ransacked their properties.
Under it, too, archaeological sites were ransacked, as was the Kabul Museum.
Smaller, independent corner shops, the kind without a head office in Welwyn Garden City, that aren't insured up to the teeth, were ransacked as well, for their big-ticket items of booze and fags.
I turned the corner onto the High Road, and found a police car ablaze, and teenagers, some who looked as young as 10, ransacking a music shop.
Players are pitched together into a stark landscape, and must survive for as long as possible, ransacking buildings for guns and food and avoiding the undead.
A few days later, he returned and watched, horrified, as looters ransacked a store.
Days before he died, Neruda lay bedridden as soldiers ransacked his home.
Forming a line several hundred metres away, they watched as youths ransacked the area.
I felt myself sweating as I ransacked my desk for a white crayon that was not there.
