A frenzy of hotel building razed old neighbourhoods and transformed city centres. |
Such neighbourhoods are chronically poor and lack the social cohesion of an established community. |
Hooligans on quad bikes and motorcycles who terrorise neighbourhoods face anti-social behaviour orders. |
As well as vandalism, it will target drunken louts and unruly gangs who make neighbourhoods no-go areas. |
Beyond neighbourhoods, policing then needs what I would describe as answerability, at the level of the services centred in large towns. |
In other districts, vigilantes set up roadblocks and patrolled neighbourhoods to deter thieves and looters. |