“At least 81 people have been arrested for looting. The crimes have hit several areas of our city as Ike was making landfall and after the monster storm moved out.”
What is missing from that story is that total buglaries in Houston are down by about 1/3 of what they normally would be absent the storm. Houston is making singificantly fewer arrests because significantly fewer crimes are occuring.
In Galveston County, with a popultion in excess of 150,000 there were exactly 11 arrests for looting — and three of those were one band of looters.
Not that the news media ever *overstates* a problem.
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