Crime Rate After Hurricane Katrina

Do natural disasters have an impact on crime rate? It is obvious that this type of event is not taken lightly. Some are not prepared, when everything is lost and they don’t have so much as a dollar to their name it can get tough. Many experience gruesome hardships, such as hunger, sickness, and even death. The death toll varies in different disaster situations but the number is still high. Many are left homeless whole families, with young children and nothing to fall back on nowhere to go. Not everyone has access to natural disaster insurance and some don’t bother to pay for it thinking they won’t need it. The amount of money used to repair destroyed homes, businesses’, and shelter and feed people comes out costly. “According to the Annual Disaster Statistical Review, in the year 2007 alone natural catastrophes cost the world at least $74,985.26 million and affected over 211,216,415 people worldwide.” (1) Help does not always arrive on time and sometimes not enough is given.
The outcome after a disaster
It struck on August 23rd, 2005 and was listed as a Category 5 hurricane. Much damage was made in New Orleans partly due to the fact that the levee’s broke because of the poor quality work done by the engineer. Not able to sustain any impact from the water bursting through in a matter of hours the city began to flood rising to high levels wiping out houses, cars, and people. This left many stranded inside houses, on rooftops, or anywhere they could find shelter. There were so many people homeless and in starvation and even when they were put into the dome it was so overcrowded and packed down on the inside and outside that despite the Government trying to help it was not enough. Many were still left starving and it didn’t help that the heat was getting to them. Five days after the hurricane hit people immediately started looting from stores and trying to get their hands on what they