The Mayor put into place a policy that mandated all N.O. police officers must live in the N.O. city limits.
But because of the high crime over the years, fewer and fewer policemen want to live inside the city limits of N.O.
That put demands on police recruitment that could only be met by lowering the standards for police hiring...so much so that former felons were permitted to wear the N.O. badge.
That's outrageous...and should shock no one that former felons with current police badges and guns suddenly participated in the looting.
Which all goes back to the Mayor's flawed police living mandate.
"God help us if there is is large scale terror attack. We've seen how prepared we are, 4 years after 9/11. We should all be ashamed and learn from this."
New Orleans was on the weaker West side of Hurricane Katrina. In contrast, Mobile was on the more powerful East side of Katrina's eye.
...Yet Mobile is doing fine, all things considered. Sure, it was damaged, but its evacuation plan worked and its disaster response plan worked and its pre-hurricane planning worked.
Same for Florida. Consider that Katrina made landfall near N.O. as a Cat 4. Well, Florida weathered a Cat 4 and a Cat 3 hurricane last year, as well as weathered Katrina herself days before N.O.
No chaos in Florida. No chaos in Mobile.
Yet it's the same FEMA. It's the same federal government. What's different between Florida, Alabama, and Louisianna?
Local leadership.