You know if I was standing around telling people to dump loot and then letting them go to loot some more while they grew even more emboldened and the city descended into anarchy - I would say f'it and go home and protect my family. If the situation changed, leadership appeared with a plan to stop the madness - I would come back.
I don't blame those cops ONE bit.
And the truth is, the NOLA officials did NOT provide for the NOPD. Wouldn't declare martial law; used them for search and rescue. No gas, no declaration pre-Katrina for assistance by the National Guard. No gas, no food, no boats, NO BUSES.
But a couple of shots of people wearing NOPD uniforms looting. Maybe they were NOPD, maybe they weren't.
Has anyone positively identified the two NOPD looters by name, as actually having been NOPD? I haven't read that yet. Anyone hear any reporter ASK the Chief directly if he'd seen the video of those two female "nopd" looters?
The chain of command to the NOPD was **virtually*** non-existent.
Second, these cops were on "active duty". Therefore, it would have been OUT of their job to have LOOTED, no? Common sense "survivalism" be damned, if you are still "active duty" and now being hit for not having looted stores for ammo.
3rd. Two cops going to Las Vegas. NO possibly has a contract with a "care facility" in Las Vegas. I don't know whether this is so or not.
I do know that when nurses and others in the "helping/protection" lines of work have problems, there's a policy, and a place, specific places where they are supposed to go to.