Could The Riots Have Been Prevented?

One of the documentaries shown on the BBC3 series ‘Our Crime’ was about the August 2011 England riots. Now i know it was quite a while ago but watching the documentary made it feel like it was just yesterday it all happened. The documentary was interesting as it showed different people in different situations and how they felt when it was all going on. I was on holiday so i was watching this all on the news. I remember captions like ‘ London's burning’ and it literally was. I remember seeing videos and getting loads of blackberry broadcasts and thinking back now i see how technology really helped to keep the world informed. I was doing more reading into the riots and also found out that some charities and organisations felt like the riots were linked in with the fact that the amount of money charities were given to organise youth groups and events for the youth in the community were cut .The different charities mentioned that if they had a bit more money then they may have been able to prevent the riots in some shape or form. Facebook and twitter on the other hand seemed to organise a clean up of the riots with their different facebook groups and tagged operation called #riotcleanup which seemed to appeal to most of the younger generation and also was like more of a positive act to make them feel part of the community rather than them destroying the areas they have grown up in .I guess the aim of the event was to make them feel like they were also doing something good for their community.