the riots

I want to strike a slightly optimistic note on all this.
Feral youths of the kind we are now seeing have existed for some time. In the past they have been largely engaged in smaller scale criminality - hassling people, shoplifting, drugs, car crime, gang fighting, vanadalism etc. because this has been endemic but relatively low level we have been able, not exactly to ignore it, but to treat it as containable.
The difference here, of course, is that they have gathered in large, semi- organised groups and have engaged in mass actions, rather than individual or small group crime. Why I am trying to look on the bright side is that this will force us, as a society, to confront the issue of feral youth. So, something meaningful may well at last result.
Incidentally, appeals to 'parents' are a complete waste of time. Most of these youths and a few girls, will be from the care system, will have no parents effectievly, or will have parenst who are inadequate at best, leading chaotic lives at worst. These rioters and looters are on the streets BECAUSE there is no family in operation.