Katrina Coverage

The Reuters report "After Katrina, stories of gun battles" describes the situation in Algiers Point, apparently a gentrified area with restored Victorians. Neighbors armed themselves and formed a neighborhood watch program. It describes a couple carjackings as well as a gun battle between looters and potential lootees. The latter won.
Apparently forums at this site served […]

Caches of looted goods have been found in New Orleans. The cops secure them and tag them for later retrieval: "Katrina's hidden loot" from the AP.
- a six-feet-high stack of automotive parts
- off-road motorcycle
- broken-open ATMs
- 500-round bundles of ammo
etc.
In a church-run assisted living home close to a heavily looted Wal-Mart in the lower Garden […]

Someone please look up the details on the cases mentioned here and provide any supporting/contradictory information in the comments.

Theodore Dalrymple:
…Most of the looters look bitter, angry, resentful, and vengeful as they go about what British burglars are inclined (in all seriousness) to call their “work.” The gangs are reported to have used racial taunts during their depredations. In all probability, the looters believe that, in removing as much as they can from stores, […]

The MSNBC reporter went into a WalMart to check out the looting scene, and a 5.7 Meg clip of his report is here.
According to Savage, the looters claimed it was OK to loot. In fact, the police were over in Aisle 3, pushing a basket and engaging in a bit of their own ad hoc […]

From "Rumors of riots, crime unfounded, officials say":
During the information vacuum following Hurricane Katrina, locals made scores of frantic calls to area newspapers and police to report the unimaginable: Evacuees from New Orleans were being stripped of loaded guns at a Houma shelter. Roving gangs from the inner city were patrolling local neighborhoods. A woman […]

From the LAT's "Water Levels Down Sharply in New Orleans":
Water levels dropped precipitously Monday in the worst of the flooded neighborhoods in and around New Orleans. Areas that had been under 6 to 8 feet of water less than two days earlier were dry at dawn, with ooze now smearing the streets and water collecting […]

Emphasis on the "some" part. The Boston Globe interviewed up to six sociologists and other social boffins and they say that after most natural disasters there's relatively little looting. They question whether there was as much looting after Katrina as the networks and the rest of the MSM have claimed.
From "Up for Grabs":
…[Clark McPhail, emeritus […]

From this:
…On Thursday [Sep 1], the team was in Kenner, La. — a small city of about 75,000 on the Mississippi River's East Bank — where police described the violence and looting as "out of control."
USAR is working with Louisiana State Troopers, as well as the National Guard.
"It's far too dangerous for even the state […]

On August 30, Yahoo News printed two photos of people wading through water: the first of a black man with a garbage bag full of stuff he obtained by "looting", and the second of a white couple with bread and soda that they obtained by "finding" those items.
This trivial difference was immediately seized upon by […]