NOLA mayor Nagin taking reassigning all officers to looting

[soonertwister]

This is great news. It means that the troops have arrived, and things are going to get better.

I want to believe.

[blueeyes_austin]

Looting: The police are looting. This has been confirmed by several independent sources. Some of the looting might be "legitimate" in as much as that word has any meaning in this context. They have broken into ATMs and safes: confirmed. We have eyewitnesses to this. They have taken dozens of SUVs from dealerships ostensibly for official use. They have also looted gun stores and pawn shops for all the small arms, supposedly to prevent "criminals" from doing so. But who knows their true intentions. We have an inside source in the NOPD who says that command and control is in chaos. He reports that command lapses more than 24 hours between check-ins, and that most of the force are "like deer in the headlights." NOPD already had a reputation for corruption, but I am telling you now that the people we've been talking to say they are not recognizing the NOPD as a legitimate authority anymore, since cops have been seen looting in Walmarts and forcing people out of stores so they could back up SUVs and loot them. Don't shoot the messenger....

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[soonertwister]

Blueeyes, if you want to spam your post that's your choice. Just don't infect my thread with it. I know a lot of police officers that wouldn't loot if it was the end of the world, because that's just the way they think.

Just because of a few rotten apples, you want to paint evil upon all of them. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[blueeyes_austin]

Um, it's not spam. It is an eyewitness account from guys in NO right now.

[Cookiely]

I believe what they are seeing is police trying to survive to do their job. They are scrounging for food and gasoline to keep their cars running. It is permissable for police to confiscate cars to continue to work. How do you know its not a criminal dressed like a cop? I read where an entire precinct of cops are missing and feared dead. What better way for a criminal to get away with anything.