I think that article has the wrong Friday for Fed offer to consolidate police activity. It says the offer to have a fed takoevr was made before the evacuation began, and before the hurricane even struck. I think the offer was made after more Nat'l Gaurd was in place, after the hurricane, and after it was clear LA state was not up to coordinating restoration of civil order, rescue, relief and evacuation.
It would be presuptuous of the feds to offer to take over before there was a disaster, indeed, even before there was an evacuation order!
Otherwise a good read. I sent the author a note.
This is a failure of government.
People who depended on government for
their basic safety, the people of NO ,
were failed by their God of Government.
The government did not work well in NO.
Those that preach that government is God, like the
black reverend scumbags, should take a hit from this.
Government failed its dependents.
This should be a lesson to government dependents that they can't depend on government.