On July 7, Mr. Burgess and others say, a large group of gang members met to discuss, among other things, how to respond to an acquittal in the Jackson case, and opted to try to avoid rioting.
He said "the order has gone out" to avoid rioting among leaders of five different gangs, which he did not identify.
His compassion and ability to connect helped the city avoid riots.
Among other things, protesters demanded that police make the chain of command clear to the public, avoid riot gear, armored vehicles, rubber bullets and tear gas, and refrain from mass arrests, pre-emptive arrests, intimidation, and harassment.
Asked whether the service had been fortunate to avoid serious riots, Hardwick said: "Managers nationally and locally have been very effective at spinning a lot of plates...
The streets were quiet today, in part because many families go on vacation this time of year to avoid the riots.
If Beijing is to avoid more riots in the months and years ahead, it needs to stop seeing this as an Apple problem and start seeing it as a China problem.
But beyond the mechanical advantages of such advances as precision farming is the strategic thinking that will create policies business and governments will need to avoid food riots.
He says: "The French were decades ahead of Crossrail with their cross-town RER, and now they are going ahead with a series of RER extensions that will bring millions of people closer to centres of employment and opportunity - one of the most effective ways of tackling social exclusion and, to put it bluntly, avoiding riots".
Many programmers were taking jobs abroad to avoid the rioting and religious strife, he said.
