It is the responsibility of the mayor to know his city and know the people who run the departments in the city.
For 2/3 of the police officers in New Orleans to abandon their jobs and/or join the looters in trashing the city, it is clear Nagin knew how corrupt his police force was, he knew the crime rate in the city WAS TEN TIMES the national average, and he knew that chaos would result because there is chaos every single day in New Orleans with a crime rate like that.
No sane person could honestly say that the lawlessness caught them by surprise. Even on a good day, New Orleans is America's Fallujah.
The models should have predicted that the first order of business would be to enforce STRICT security. If they had not, then this is yet another example of the RAT Cancer politically correctness where even a multimillion dollar computer model simulation fails to input the non-politically correct fact that New Orleans is a cesspool of crime and you better damn well take that into account in any honest computer model.
Fourteen hundred National Guard troops per day are arriving in New Orleans to control looting and lawlessness. It's not clear whether guardsmen will shoot looters or simply force them to swim away in the city's toxic streets.
President Bush called for zero tolerance on looting, but it wasn't clear if he meant those looting businesses in New Orleans or those looting customers at the nation's gas stations.
New Orleans sent out a distress call after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. Everyone wants to come to their aid. Two hours after the hurricane was finished Los Angeles sent six planeloads of looters to help out in any way they can. (comedian Argus Hamilton)