London Calling?

On my walk today, at 6th Ave and 20th street, the New Balance store had a line of men and women that went all the way around the block.  There was a sales position available.  At 9th street and Second Ave. behind St. Mark's in the Bowery there were 8 young people, boys and girls, sleeping on the street.  I had my camera with me and was highly tempted to take a photo,but people have their right to privacy. 
Amy Goodman on Democracy Now estimated that the unemployment rate among young black men is 30 to 40 %.  The people I saw on line were in the vast majority white.  The kids sleeping on the street were white.
In another great city that is suffering:
Monday was the third day of rioting in London.  On Saturday Mark Duggan, Anglo-Caribbean, father of four and a resident of social [public] housing, was shot and killed by police.  He was holding a loaded gun which police today confirm was not fired.  His social housing project is called Broadwater Farm.  Twenty-five years ago London had riots that also originated there.  They are called The Broadwater Farm Riots.  Margaret Thatcher, rather Baroness, was Prime Minister.  Today the Prime Minister is David Cameron, also Conservative, who was on vacation at his villa in Tuscany, Italy, when the riots started on Saturday.   He decided to come home on Tuesday to address Parliament and the riots.  Today's headline at the BBC: "Police admit they got the riots wrong", says David Cameron.  The official explanation for the rioting is criminality.
Prime Minister Cameron's speech listed his agenda to address the rioting:
To go ahead with his austerity plans to lay off 9,000 of 35,000 police force
To stop people from using social media in times of emergency
To allow courts to give tougher sentences
To allow landlords to evict criminals from social housing
The rioting started in one area of London and spread to 7 other districts in London, then to Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester.  The cleanup will certainly be expensive but needs to done because London is hosting that billion dollar event: The Olympics.  I don't think London is calling to New Yorkers but other European cities, perhaps.