[supercat]

These searches and confiscations of private property were illegal and without merit and the City of New Orleans should pay through the Nose from the crimes its officers committed.

IMHO, state legislatures should pass laws to make explicit that in such times of emergency, crooks who are trying to disarm the citizenry should be shot, regardless of uniform.

[omega4179]

Since Katrina 21 states have banned such seizures after disasters.