After a while...and the media is very careful to fault them...but you get the impression that Orleans police were not up to standards. The number of cops who just walked off the job...you wouldn't have in NY or Miami. I'll even bet all are rehired within 30 days with no mention of their walking off in their records.
One even starts to see them at the same level as the Mexico City cops...corrupt and imcompetent. Every question that the police chief gets...is very well crafted to avoid making them look like fools. Personally, I'd fire the entire department, and bring in outsiders...because something was wrong in New Orleans...way before the flood or hurricane.
Another thing Col. Hunt mentioned was more than one of the police joined in the fray. He did indicate a lot of the officers has bonded due to the difficulties presented with communications. I'm beginning to think hearings on this is going to be very revealing.
Something will always be wrong in New Orleans. The place will always be a decadent smelly hole. The Louisiana politicians are going NOWHERE. The place will always be a hole, and it is a terrible shame (crime) that the federal government is giving that craphole city Americans' hard earned tax dollars.
I say get all the animals and humans out of N.O., knock down the levees, and say goodbye to that dump of a city forever.
p.s. Leave Nagin there ........ oh, he already moved to a nice house in Dallas.