Riots? Where does the blame REALLY lie?

No matter what the reason, smashing & burning the place you live is never a good idea. You look like thugs & the system wins.
After all, where will people go to work once all this is over?
Do you really expect Aldi will spend hundreds of thousands to rebuild in a hurry? Where will those thrown out of work because your upset a suspected drug dealer was killed get new jobs from?
OK, the Police were crap in passing out information as to what had happened, but that's what the police do.
Look at how many lies were told about the Ian Tomlinson case? Or that Brazilian who was killed?
The police will hide the truth unless compelled by people using the right channels & media to do so. If it hadn't been for a video, the copper who killed Ian would still be on the job today. Probably in Tottenham. Beating YOU to death illegally...
Burning the entire area to the ground will just get more innocent people arrested, make the police more suspicious of EVERYONE no matter what colour they are and stop businesses coming to the area to offer employment.
Tottenham had only just really started to get over the 1985 riots from what I can tell & now you have Ken Livingstone using your problems to score political points when, if he really cared, he would be asking what he can do to help IF elected as Mayor, not slagging off the current one.
Politicians will always bend the truth to suit their own ends.
Fact.
As a community, what you need to do is shop those doing the looting, dealing & mugging, get the police to tell the truth and start to rebuild.
Again.
I for one hope that you manage to overcome these problems & come out the other end a much closer & better place to live.
Politicians will come to visit, wring their hands, give you every excuse under the sun, promise you the earth and as soon as the media have left, forget all about you though.

That is the sad part.

Within 2 months, you will be forgotten.

Thats a sad comment on the state of the whole nation, not just a few areas of London...

I'd just like to thank Emily (@theurbandryad) for reminding me that I have this blog as an outlet. I owe you a drink...