<\/a><\/p>\n This is what the collapse of the welfare state looks like. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: Human Events<\/a><\/p>\n For the past four days, the city of London has been in flames. The UK Telegraph<\/a> <\/em>reports over 20,000 calls to the police on a single night:<\/p>\n Officials said all police cells in London were now full and that any new suspects who were arrested were being taken to surrounding areas.<\/p>\n Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin also called on all special constables to report for duty as the Met requested employers “to support” their emergency initiative.<\/p>\n “Last night was the worst the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service) has seen in current memory for unacceptable levels of widespread looting, fires and disorder,” a spokesman for the Met police said.<\/p>\n “The MPS responded with the largest policing operation of the three nights to date (approximately 2,500 officers in addition to 3,500 officers already on boroughs).”<\/p>\n The Met spokesman went on to report that the riots have seen violence toward both police and civilians:<\/p>\n “Disturbing levels of violence were directed at officers again, leading to 44 being injured last night, which included an officer being driven at, resulting in broken bones, and another officer receiving an eye injury that is likely to need surgery (separate incident).<\/p>\n “Fourteen members of the public were also hurt, including a man in his 60s who has life-threatening head injuries.”<\/p>\n The BBC<\/a> says the looters who ran over a police officer with a car are being “questioned on suspicion of attempted murder.” Another group of looters apparently shot a man to death in Croydon. Ambulances have been attacked as they ferried the injured to overflowing hospitals. The London police had to admit they didn’t have enough riot police<\/a> to deal with the disorder. Buildings have been set ablaze, leading to an astonishing photograph, snapped by photographer Amy Weston, of a woman leaping from the window of a blazing four-story building.<\/p>\n