The reality is the looting wave is the result of Alan Greenspan driving wages through the floor and Chamber of Commerce manipulating cheap labor schemes to keep Americans poor.
Many have just given up and turned to theft.
Cheap slave labor + products made in other countries under free trade agreements can only last so long before your own people turn on you, Wall St.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-24/spirit-lawlessness-has-descended-upon-streets-america