They sent 88 cops to the Convention Center. They made it 30 feet inside the building before they were beaten back. The rules of engagement sound like they were too tepid - as they have been for the last few days.
This is, in microcosm, a glorious study in the appeasement of terror. Had lawful authority made a highly visible show of force at the onset of all this, much of this violence and idiocy would have been avoided.
The entire NOPD needs to be gutted and rebuilt from scratch.