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Turkish and Asian groups have stood up to & chased off rioters. Bloody immigrants. Coming over here, defending our boroughs & communities

Instead of a curfew, the Met Police have announced that an unprecedented 16,000 offices will be on duty on the streets of the capital tonight (Tuesday 9 August 2011), with plastic bullets to be used if deemed necessary.

Rioting is imitative behaviour compressed and sped up. The people who study crowds will tell you that such behaviour is massively complex: it involves individuals with their own internal motivations reacting to groups, and groups reacting to the actions of individuals, and everything happening very fast. It's top-down and bottom-up, each feeding off the other. So it's always difficult to discern 'root causes' because these things taken on a momentum of their own. But the current riots seem peculiarly rootless compared to previous outbreaks, like the Broadwater Farm riots, when the grievances seemed clearer and more tangible.

Violent behaviour doesn't spread easily. In cities like London where security is relatively light touch - with roughly 200 people for every police officer - order relies on a kind of invisible contract among the people that live there. That's the basis of any community. It also relies on fear of punishment or public shaming. When people float free of the felt, tactile, social bonds of a community, they become more subject to influence from outside it.

HAve you read the Motown guy Blog (André retweeted it so I guess you have) it's awesome and dramatically well written.

"Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were organized via social media. Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. And when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them. So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these Web sites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.”