One of the officials mentioned that the bus drivers were too scared to drive the buses. I can see why they wouldn't want to drive into the 9th ward to get people or why they would be scared to drive people.
It seems to me Blanko could have called in the national guard and stationed some on the buses.
The "bad guys" have assimilated into other regions. They will probably hook up with "bad guys" in those regions.
Col. Hunt said "bad guys" were shooting amongs themselves in wars during the height of the looting. His investigation makes me wonder if the guys in the Fur coats with guns in the boat that tried to loot a hospital were really from another city.
I have no doubt that people were waiting to take advantage of the situation in the same way this time.
Ah- but isn't it interesting that the SAME people who trashed and terrorized the Superdome behaved FAR differently at the Astro Dome??
An eyewitness account from my nephew- who was downtown during the hurricane and the subsequent violence: The medical teams and choppers were being shot at from the ground. He simply couldn't believe it. They were trying to HELP and were being attacked. He was issued a shotgun to protect himself and his ambulance. His partner had to shoot two thugs and he saw other rampaging criminals blown out of the water-literally- by the helicopters.
The anarchy that was seen in N.O. after the hurricane was fully public and unrestrained. Those were the same people who have been ruining N.O. for years.
I pray to God that NO, repeat NO housing projects are rebuilt( especially near the Quarter as the Bienville project was) IF any of N.O. beyond the Quarter and downtown are reconstructed.
One ironic laugh I got while listening to TV reports after Katrina. I think it was either Nagin or the police chief Compass who proudly announced that New Orleans was drug and crime free!
Of course it is- it's EMPTY!! It just took a historic disaster to clean the huge criminal element out.