"It reduces the risk of riots".
As a result Londoners' confidence in the police is now rising, but we know that this is a fragile state of affairs and the risk of riots has not gone away.
The ABI said stopping payments for larger businesses would force insurers to reprice for the risk of riots, which would lead to high premiums or excesses, or riot damage being excluded from policies.
In any society that is built on structures of injustice, where the law applies to some but not all, where certain groups are more likely to be affected by income inequalities than others, there will always be a risk of riots and social disobedience.
For example Paul Tidball, president of the Prison Governors Associationn, speaking to the Parliamentary Justice Committee, expressed concerns about Titans, and in particular the potential for gang culture to flourish and for an increased risk of rioting.
The panel, which visited 21 communities and interviewed thousands of people affected by the riots, says its wide-ranging recommendations "must be enacted together" if the risk of further riots is to be reduced.
To reduce the risk of more riots in future, France needs to try more of a neighbourhood-based approach to policing.
This last, which would have led to the declaration of a mistrial, was what many people hoped for, since it would have meant that the defendants were not flattered by a proclamation of innocence, while at the same time there was no conviction, no risk of race riots, and no breach of tradition.
"If we don't do anything," France's president Nicolas Sarkozy said on the same day, "we run the risk of food riots in the poorest countries and a very unfavourable effect on global economic growth".In this section Hungry for votes High life Second helpings of tapioca pudding A waxing crescent ReprintsCompanies are attentive, too.
Its workers were being paid little, and only sporadically, and there was the risk of a riot if that didn't change soon.
Collapsed children's charity Kids Company warned civil servants that the sudden closure of its services could create a high risk of social unrest, including riots, looting and arson attacks on government buildings.
