New Orleans Police are a joke too! They were no help during the Katrina mess...and their nasty tactics I've heard about are absolutely DISGUSTING!


I would not go that far.

A lot of the police did stay on the job, working for over 2 weeks without going home, rescueing a lot of people, and honestly doing what they could with what was available to them.  The scale of the disaster was just overwhelming.

However, I have nothing good to say at all for the cops that left their jobs, joined in the looting, and abused their power during this time.

I would not go that far.

A lot of the police did stay on the job, working for over 2 weeks without going home, rescueing a lot of people, and honestly doing what they could with what was available to them.  The scale of the disaster was just overwhelming.

However, I have nothing good to say at all for the cops that left their jobs, joined in the looting, and abused their power during this time.


Ditto, just because someone is a cop doesn't mean the have an automatic halo.  They are just like the
rest of the population, some are saints, some are sinners, most are in the middle.d  I would say given the
size of the catastrophe there are a hellavu lot more saints and middles than sinners.  Bless them for what they had to see and do.

Nagin is IMO not doing his job..he had PLENTY of time before Katrina arrived to set things in motion as far as evacuation goes...He could have ORDERED that city buses be utilized FREE of charge to get people out and made that a public announcement..he could have conveyed to his city's residents just how BAD Katrina would be(I'm sure Nagin had access to The Weather Channel and National Weather Service reports)..and Nagin should not have felt totally safe that the levees would hold Katrina's monstrous storm surge and flooding at bay.

I honestly think here near the Jersey Shore we are more prepared for a hurricane than New Orleans was. Everyone here KNOWS about what happened in 1944 and 1962, both years when monster storms hit the Jersey Shore pretty hard..Gloria in 1985 had the potential makings of a disaster, but everyone in Atlantic City and other shore communities heeded the order to evacuate.

Nagin is IMO not doing his job..he had PLENTY of time before Katrina arrived to set things in motion as far as evacuation goes...He could have ORDERED that city buses be utilized FREE of charge to get people out and made that a public announcement


Actually, useing the city busses is part of the established SOP for Hurricane Preperation for New Orleans.  The Mayor ignored it and a lot of other things (food, water and security for the SuperDome is another area he ignored SOP).  He also failed to ask the Governor to mobilize the National Guard before Katrina hit (SOP stated that that should be requested 48-72 hours before a Cat 3 storm hits.  He had 96 hours warning that it would be a Cat 4-5, and still did nothing).

Mostly, I look at how NO handled it, and compare that to towns like Buloxi.  Mississippi got hit just as bad as NO did, and suffered even worse structural damage from the hurricane.  However, the number of deaths is only a fraction of those in NO.  That says something in and of itself.