How Riots Start, and How They Can Be Stopped: Edward Glaeser
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Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The riots that began in London havespread across the country. Decades of social-science researchhas delivered insights about these outbursts of violence, buthasn’t explained why they erupt when and where they do.
We do, however, understand how they usually end: withoverwhelmingly force that clears the streets.