[Northern Alliance]

We aren't talking about people running into the jewelry store and pocketing stones. We are talking about people that are rummaging through a grocery store

Are we?

...people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores. One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his left arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store. "No," the man shouted, "that's EVERYBODY'S store."

[Ike]

You saw the thieves, and that they are. I saw them, too, but I also saw women with baby formula (my basic faith in human nature has to believe that it WAS for a baby) & toilet paper.
I repeat: there should have been a MANDATORY evacuation on Sat., moving everyone who had no means to leave to the Superdome where they could be fed and kept off the streets.