{"id":10984,"date":"2011-08-10T10:47:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:47:29","slug":"collapse-of-british-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/collapse-of-british-society","title":{"rendered":"Collapse of British Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10986\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10986\" title=\"england-burning\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/england-burning-250x171.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters attempt to extinguish a property on fire near Reeves Corner in Croydon, south London \" width=\"250\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/england-burning-250x171.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/england-burning-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/england-burning.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture: Lewis Whyld\/PA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thousands of extra police officers on the streets kept a nervous London  quiet Tuesday night after three nights of rioting, but looting flared in  Manchester and Birmingham, where a murder probe was opened when three  men were killed after being hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>Eerie calm prevailed in  the capital, where hundreds of shops were shuttered or boarded up as a  precaution, but unrest spread across England on a fourth night of  violence by brazen crowds of young people.<\/p>\n<p>Scenes of ransacked  stores, torched cars and blackened buildings have frightened and  outraged Britons just a year before their country is to host next  summer&#8217;s Olympic Games, bringing demands for a tougher response from law  enforcement. Police across the country have made almost 1,200 arrests  since the violence broke out over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In London, where  armored vehicles and convoys of police vans patrolled the streets,  authorities said there were 16,000 officers on duty &#8211; almost triple the  number present Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four days of violent rioting in what used to be &#8220;merry old England&#8221; have some asking if this isn&#8217;t the collapse of British society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,219,51],"class_list":["post-10984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-violence","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}