How did it play? I've only read freeper comments.
The guy was trying to lay blame at everybody's feet but his own.
Yet at the same time he acknowledges that NO was a city on the edge before the hurricane.
Talks about drugs flowing freely through the city, high murder rate, etc. and says now that they're understaffed, things are out of control.
He almost sounds empathetic to the drug users that are now "on the edge" as he says because they haven't had a fix.