Welsh police vans parked outside Apple's Regent Street store in London.
@RegentsTweet said:@MacRumors Please don't spin it as if police vans were just to protect Apple Store. London has more to worry about today than bloody iPhones
@RegentsTweet said:@appletweets: Apple Hires Police To Guard Its Regent Street Retail Store ********. You don't "hire police". We just have a layby outside.
@RegentsTweet said:Police weren't there specifically for Regent St Apple Store. We have a lay-by outside for easy parking & we're next to Oxford Circus is all.
Just thinking out loud. What would happen if enough anti-riot people would organize their "protect the city" movement? Blood and violence? Or enough threat to stop rioting at least locally? Why do we always leave this to police? Or is it just that these riots are silently approved by vast majority or citizens?
Quotes from someone working at the Regent St Apple Store:
The police have training and special equipment to deal with these types of situations. We may be seeing problems and destruction now, but if the masses were to "rise up" against it all they would do is make it worse.
Tough luck for the Sony distribution warehouse which burnt down.
Location, location, location??
Not saying you can buy the police, but obviously police guard high value targets.
i.e. police will be there in seconds in case of bank robbery vs. a convenient store robbery.
...but you admitted that the "moving the goalposts" comment was wrong and you retracted it.