No, the reason you have looters out of control is because the police dealt with looters by using a firm tone of voice ("Put that DVD Player Down, NOW!") rather than shooting them on sight. After the looters moved up from DVD players to guns and ammo, it was too late.
When the police who are supposed to be stopping the looters decide to become the looters what do you expect. They have probably been standing by watching this Administration rip off the public all these years and decided to get their own share.