CW, I thought of something else about this, and just want to throw it out to the thread. Remember initially the death toll was supposed to be in the thousands. I wonder if the 'phantom cops' were going to turn up missing (and wind up in the massive death toll). Entire phantom families could go missing as well. Of course, their homes, their records (tax info), their cars, etc. would all wash away as well. Also, if you have phantom cops, you have to have phantom police stations, cars, vans...they too could have all been washed away.
Just a thought...
And, to recall, the powers that be weren't all that "eager" to retrieve all those police cars that were "driven out of the city" by those "deserting cops"...
This is going to be juicy..