Originally Posted by Rochard

This is what I don't understand about people rioting. You are upset, I get that - but looting a local store isn't going to change anything or even affecting the people are you are angry at. All it's going to do is affect local citizens - your neighbors. Local stores go out of business because of this, leaving their friends and neighbors without jobs.

How does that help?

Of course, that doesn't begin to count the real damage - the extra costs to the city. My hometown here has a population of fifty thousand people and our police department has a budget of five million dollars. Now imagine having additional costs for two million dollars a month to handle rioting and fires. Fucking insane.