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Also, for what it's worth, it seems to be partly a policing problem, right? For a long time the police would not engage the suburbs/projects; wouldn't even GO there, and would let even rather major crimes go unpunished. I think the lesson is partly that you can't allow that to happen; you have to police all people and not just the "low hanging fruit".
If you were a cop, and had the choice of fighting violent crime in cultures you don't understand, or spending all day writing traffic tickets, what would you do? It would take a lot of motivation to fight violent crime. A lot more if the culture is completely foreign to you.
Thus the police asking for people's papers and generally hassling them, racially profiling, because that's easy and safe, but not actually going after the hardasses, fighting and solving crime.
Barg, we will find it quite humorous and sad if you try to pin this on Bush and Blair. If the violence continues, your voters will demand all politicians be Sarkozys.
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