British PM Seeks Gang Violence Solutions in US

 　　Britain's prime minister says he will look to the United States for solutions to gang violence, following almost a week of riots that erupted in London and other cities across Britain.

　　David Cameron said Thursday he would seek advice from U.S. cities that have fought gangs, including Boston, Los Angeles and New York.

　　Cameron told an emergency session of parliament authorities are considering disabling social networking websites that rioters used to coordinate¹ their activity.

　　He said he would give police extra powers, including the ability to order youths to remove masks, to prevent street violence.

　　The prime minister was initially² critical of the police response to the riots, but has since acknowledged that police had been overwhelmed by the groups of looters in the first nights of rioting.

　　Prime Minister Cameron said he would keep a higher police presence of 16,000 police officers in London through the coming days and would consider calling in the army to help.

　　British police said early Friday a 68-year-old man who was attacked during the riots has become the fifth fatality³ of the unrest.

　　What sparked violence

　　The violence was originally touched off by the fatal shooting last week of a 29-year-old man in London's economically depressed⁴ Tottenham neighborhood.

　　British courts are struggling to deal with a massive backlog⁵ of cases from the riots.  Police have arrested more than 1,200 people since the riots began on Saturday.

1 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

2 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

3 fatality   

n.不幸，灾祸，天命

参考例句：

• She struggle against fatality in vain.她徒然奋斗反抗宿命。
• He began to have a growing sense of fatality.他开始有一种越来越强烈的宿命感。

4 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

5 backlog   

n.积压未办之事

参考例句：

• It will take a month to clear the backlog of work.要花一个月的时间才能清理完积压的工作。
• Investment is needed to reduce the backlog of repairs.需要投资来減轻积压的维修工作。