Reasons to why the Riots happened?

The Death of Mark Duggen, a local man from the area, who was shot dead by police on 4 August 2011. --- Poor relations with police - The riots in Tottenham after the death of Mark Duggan were initially blamed on poor relations between the police and the black community. --- Social exclusion - Links were made to high youth unemployment and general disenfranchisement. --- Family breakdown - Christina Odone writing in the Daily Telegraph links the riots to a lack of male role models and argues that "Like the overwhelming majority of youth offenders behind bars, these gang members have one thing in common: no father at home. --- Government cuts - The spending cuts of the coalition government in the United Kingdom has also been cited as a cause. Ken Livingstone, the Labour Candidate for Mayor of London in 2012 has argued that the "The economic stagnation and cuts being imposed by the Tory government inevitably create social division."[244] Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats political party, made it clear that the government's planned cuts to police budgets will go ahead. The local government budget had been cut in the past year so Haringey Council, which includes Tottenham and Tottenham Hale, decided to close eight of its 13 youth clubs in 2011, rather than save money through increased efficiency or make cuts in other areas. Scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance, removing of funding for courses where the student already has an equal or lower level qualification and trebling of university tuition fees, combined with high youth unemployment has placed the British youth 'between a rock and a hard place' alienating and angering the youth population.[247] Proponents of this argument say that Scottish youth did not riot partly because Scottish students do not have to pay tuition fees.[248] Cuts in public services. --- Unemployment - David Lammy MP has said that Tottenham has the highest unemployment rate in London and the eighth highest in the United Kingdom. --- Gang culture - In a Newsnight discussion on 12 August, historian David Starkey blamed black gangster culture, saying that it had influenced youths of all races. --- Moral decay at the top - Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Oborne suggested that moral decay is just as bad at the top of society as it is at the bottom, with the rich and powerful generating anger among the British population. He cited the MPs' expenses scandal, bankers' bonuses, and the phone hacking scandal as setting poor examples.