Hopefully now that the police are rounding up the Feral perpetrators of the free for all smash & grab raids,things will begin to settle down,however things will never be normal because now that the gangs know how easy it was to 'help yourself ' I cannot help but think it can happen again,should we not therefore realise that this is now the time to rethink the whole law & order regime.I would suggest that money be redirected from building new prisons to set up so called boot camps where the Feral children would be taught the discipline so neglected over the last 20/30 years,depending on the amount of time they spent there then maybe just maybe they could be turned into useful citizens.
My father beat the living daylights out of me and what did that ' discipline' turn me into? A murderous little thug with no respect for anyone because no-one had ever shown me any. Took someone very calm and unruffled to unravel me many years later and turn me into anything like a useful citizen. I'm 51 btw so your 20 years nonsense is exactly that.