[Texasforever]

Where were the black cops?

At the Astrodome.

[nicmarlo]

I read that only about 1/3 of the NOPD stayed working.

And you can read more information about the NOPD, from this thread NG General Says Aid Delayed by Civil Unrest:

Is it fair to say, using the convention center as an example, that one reason it took until Friday to get aid in is the National Guard needed time to build up a response team with military police to ensure law and order because the New Orleans Police Department had degraded so much?

GEN. BLUM: That is not only fair, it is accurate.