TBH the trouble is affecting the whole nation and its also because in townie places twats can not just be ejected very quickly but the bar staff can often pick up a UHF radio (often a far better one then even the bouncers have as it uses a repeater) and notify details to “nightwatch” and the offenders get stalked through the whole town by CCTV scheme and barred out of everywhere. This is the only reason townie nightlife is still allowed, or they would have brought it back to the 80s when everything closed at midnight or 02:00 latest (in fact thats whats happening in my town).
Also NYE is often used by people to settle old scores and there is always a rise in violence around that time. The blue light services are fully aware of all this and perhaps this rave was one of the least problematic places in a large city. Bristol (in common with other larger cities) also has a far bigger problem with stranger violence than East Anglia – here most people what fight or kill one another know each other and live locally so its easy enough to bring them before Court, whereas last time I looked on the Avsom police site there were still loads of cold cases and hard to solve random attacks on strangers.
