Counterswarm in England Riots: "Vigilantes' join 16,000 police on London streets"

This report from the Independent, as with similar reports on the same topic, might be misleading because the question is which came first: the larger police deployment or the appearance of citizen patrols (called 'vigiliantes' at first by the British media). I will have to dig through the old news reports to nail down the answer, although I'm leaning toward the answer that it was the patrols. In any case, the phenomenon of the citzen patrols that arose during the rioting is, I believe, a true counter-swarm tactic albeit an unplanned one.