Looting is more likely to occur when groups of people feel they have been abandoned or trapped and anarchy results, or simply when people are afraid of starving or dying of exposure. After Katrina, we had the first situation, along with a bit of the second. After the Haiti earthquake, we had both in full force.
andrew sullivan has posted a lot about this --- apparently his first post about there being no looting in japan and there not even being a word for it was simply not true, and he admits it ---- which of course will make no difference to ignorant racists who continue to believe that looting is all about "the blacks" ---
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