Yes Travis,
The local authorities also released bus drivers and taxi drivers telling them to take care of their own families. Why not each bus driver driving his bus out of town with his family and the rest of the bus full.
Another problem, the release of prisoners. Very commendable from the stand point of a prison sentence not being a life sentence. But these trouble makers could have been moved early. Or moved in the prison to higher level cells and left for pick up from their cells later. Simply releasing them and warning the public when the police were being pulled out was a very bad decision. Something I can only believe would happen in a city run by democrats.
MSNBC just had a guy on named Dan somebody, an MSNBC analyst, who gave a good overview on how things aren't done as easily as the critics think (e.g. Why do air drops of food? Because history shows they can land on top of people); and he basically said (said he hated to say it) that the city and state govt's screwed up.