I think it was because our society tells us everday that we are something if we have the nice car, big house, and all the material things. The affect this has on those who don't have much is when they finally have the opportunity to get those material goods they seize it.
2007-01-12 14:47:05 · 9 answers · asked by KGthe1 2 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
It is called looting and it is done for profit. A disaster like Katrina brings that into sharp relief.Theft predates society, so explain the mechanism of " society tell us ", without resorting to social science twaddle.
PS A lot of the people hit by Katrina did not have much and they did not loot, but took food and medicine, plus needed clothes. This factor negates your explanatory implications.
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2007-01-12 14:54:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
You're quite right.
People shouldn't have to steal anything, they hand out pamphlets at grocery stores and mail them out that say to stock up on water, canned goods, flashlights, batteries, candles, gas, and other things that won't be available.
HAND OUT, people. HAND OUT.
There were a lot of criminals in Louisiana and Mississippi before, but when the security cameras were off and the police trying to dig people out of debris piles, they saw a great opportunity. I don't blame people that took food and water as much as I do the people that saw they could seize a new 36" plasma screen TV.
2007-01-14 05:07:42 · answer #2 · answered by Leafy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Looting is often opportunistic, the lapse in authority enabling willing persons to thieve with impunity.
Looting also cascades through a group of people as one person believes that his contribution to the crime is lessened because someone else is looting.
People may also believe that if the goods are not stolen, then they will simply be wasted or ruined, and see their act as a lesser of two evils.
Finally, a looter may believe that if he doesn't steal the property, it will simply be stolen by someone else and there will therefore be no benefit from honesty. Looters are usually locals of the site of the disaster, and as such, may have lost a lot of their own property. This further encourages them to steal as it is reducing the negative impact of the disaster.
2007-01-12 14:57:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I stay in a supburb of latest Orleans referred to as Metairie. If the levee had broken on the different ingredient of the canal, i could have been flooded completly. I have been given fortunate. formally, it is the accountability of the people to get out of how of a typhoon. Is it the accountability of the government to get vehicles out of how of the dashing trains? the government can and could basically do what it may to guard its people. Now that being mentioned, it exchange into the Corps of Engineers who have been thoroughly to blame for St. Bernard flooding. The MRGO exchange into, is, and often is the only explanation for that parish being destroyed. it is a very unneeded waterway the corp equipped and is now going to be closed on the taxpayer's cost. As for the destruction of latest Orleans, no it exchange into not all of the typhoon's fault. It exchange into returned the Corps of Engineers, New Orleans Levee Board, and the present and previous mayors of latest Orleans. The corps built levees alongside canals, yet used lesser components to do the activity and did not follow the innovations of the third occasion engineers. The Levee Board grew to become a politically appointed activity that no person listened to. they might discover issues in the levees and checklist them to the corps, yet neither could fix the subjects with out the mayors spending the money to achieve this or identifying to purchase the money from the feds to repair the subjects. It exchange right into a fiasco. And as for why New Orleans exchange into so impoverished, I easily have pronounced that before. It exchange into the White Flight that began under the Moon Landrieu administration and the criminal activities of the administrations on condition that. isn't Marc Morial being investigated now in Washington D. C.?
2016-12-16 03:23:43 · answer #4 · answered by lacy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your about right... I mean, if we want to talk about New Orleans, most of it is in poverty, and too poor to be able to leave everything behind. When you know that there is barley anyone in a city and many stores have no workers and most cops aren't on duty, it gives them the chance to seize things that they could never afford before.
2007-01-12 14:56:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes it would be funny if it really wasn`t so very sad. They are the same people that if told the world would end to-morrow; they would spend their remaining hours stealing money from the bank. It is a good example of how greed has infected people in this materialistic world.
2007-01-12 14:55:25 · answer #6 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it shows that even though evolution has been working overtime to help some people catch up, their knuckles are still scraped up from dragging on the ground for so long.
2007-01-12 15:57:11 · answer #7 · answered by user name 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because they were theives before the storm so they were thieve's after the storm!!!
2007-01-12 15:21:38 · answer #8 · answered by browneyedonna 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For those reasons and because they were dirt bags
2007-01-12 14:58:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋