LOL! Now I'm sniping and blaming Bush for bad weather; I've done neither, before you had a ready excuse for the officer ignoring Shep because "maybe he had a mission."
Sorry, their first mission is to "serve and protect." A simple answer to Shep would have been sufficient.
Too bad that you think that's "conjecturing" "sniping" or "blaming Bush for the weather."
I suspect that you have no clue about emergency or crisis management of any sort let alone of this magnitude.
I can almost garantee that the police have a blanket order to not speak to the press.
And if the cop had no info or none that he was permitted to share then what was he supposed to do?
Cops, firemen, medics, soldiers, etc are not in a position to free wheel and do whatever they think is right.
Now if you asked me if this response has been properly conducted based on what I've seen, I'd say that New Orleans has fouled it up on every aspect.
But all y'all that have noting more constructive to do than bitch, gripe, second guess and pretend that you know what should be done by individual responders puts y'all in about the same class as those that blame Bush for the bad weather.
Just a buncha twits chippin' their teeth making absolutely no contribution at all. Like teats on a boar hog, useless.