Well how traumatised can they be if they're looting? The real trauma is at places like the Superdome with no food,water,a/c,etc.
NO has been a high crime area for ages. I had students of mine who told me they didn't dare tell anybody if they went out of town, even their neighbor and best friend who knew them for 20 years, or they would come back and be robbed.
And then there are real saints, people I knew for years and am worried sick about.
Do you REALLY believe that they were not stocking the "Dome" before the hurricane hit with food and water???..If the people in charge did not have enough sense to stock the "Dome" with food and water as the people were pouring in before the hurricane...then they have nobody to blame but themselves...they elected these people who are in charge..they can deal with them...as for A/C...oh cry me a river.......since when was no A/C considered cruel and unusual circumstances...most of these people in the dome didn't have A/C in their homes......sheesh...