British Prime Minister David Cameron Vowed a "zero tolerance" crackdown on rioters, describing the unrest taking place in the country since last week as a turning point.

British Prime Minister David Cameron Vowed a "zero tolerance" crackdown on rioters, describing the unrest taking place in the country since last week as a turning point.

"We haven't talked the language of zero tolerance enough, but the message is getting through," Cameron told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
"If you leave the broken window, the shop gets looted again."

Cameron called the riots a turning point in British history. The frenzy of looting, rioting and arson is "going to change things, definitely," Cameron said, describing it as "a huge event in the life of the nation."
The British PM said some people were over-complicating explanations for simple criminality.
"The complicated bit is why are there so many, why is there this sizeable minority of people who are prepared to do this?"

"It might be 100,000 deeply broken and troubled families... costing hundreds of millions of pounds for the country, they are completely dysfunctional, they need help and we are going to get in there and actually try and turn this around."

ARRESTS AND COURT HEARINGS
More than 2,140 people have now been arrested since the riots have started last week, Scotland Yard Acting Commissioner Tim Godwin said adding that around 1,000 have been charged.
Godwin said he expected around 3,000 people to face the courts over the riots.

Meanwhile, two suspects were set to appear in court Sunday over the deaths of three men in the riots.
Joshua Donald, 26, and a 17-year-old male who cannot be named were to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court charged with the murder of three men hit by a car while defending their neighborhood against looters in Britain's second city.
Hundreds were expected to take part Sunday in a peace rally in Birmingham in response to the deaths.