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To: Jalapeno
I would think it is reasonable to assume that when a major city is supposed to be completely evacuated, some military contingent needs to be mobilized at the same time to prevent looting.

True. But the issue is scope. Isolated looting is one thing, and that's probably what they were expecting. This sounds like (though it may not really be) something a lot bigger than "normal" looting.

At any rate, I think a bunch of disaster plans are going to be changed to account for the magnitude of looting in NO and other affected areas.

3,734 posted on 09/01/2005 9:15:44 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
This sounds like (though it may not really be) something a lot bigger than "normal" looting.

Well it's looting by individuals and wholesale looting by gangs. The gangs however, are going to be attacking rival gangs and anyone else that gets in the way of their crime spree since the police are spread so thin. Not to mention they figure it's a good time to rub-out the competition.

3,750 posted on 09/01/2005 9:18:49 AM PDT by Smogger
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