By the looks of things, they're going to get away with it. This sickens me so bad I cannot tell you. What is worse, is the defense and the denial which follows.
It'll be worse than "getting away with it". By the time the dizzying spin is over, they will become noble testaments to triumph over over adversity. Anecdotal tales of individual self-sacrifice will be used to define the entirety. Rape and brutality will be pooh-poohed as abberations by an insignifantly small portion of the population. Anything to the contrary will be racism and Bush will be demonized in a new "single bullet theory", as if Nagin and Blanco did not exist.