The Police Departmentsaysit opposes vigilante justice, butofficers on the beat and neighborhood residents say they are enthusiasticabout the tactics tactics.
But Sir Hugh Orde, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said the police's decision to change their tactics helped control the disorder.
But, whereas many of Abou El Fadl's contemporaries responded to such police-state tactics by embracing militant Islamism, the abuse only magnified his desire to find a community where he could speak his mind without fear of retribution from either secular or religious authorities.