The Worst NOLA Looters—Cops?

I suppose there is some room for doubt in this lengthy CNN report, but it sure looks like some New Orleans cops went on organized looting binges, breaking into empty homes on dry ground, hoarding booze and other supplies in hotels, offering bribes to people who ratted on them, etc.

Comments

[wayne]

Cops are people too. Everybody has to make a living. 🙂

[Jeff P.]

Corruption? In New Orleans?

[mediageek]

A cop is nothing more than a man with a badge and a gun.

[double d]

no wonder mayor nagin wanted to ship them off to las vegas!!

[wayne]

Mediageek,

What are you, some kind of a sexist? I just love all those girlie-cops with their badges and guns, and sulky pouting lips.

[Paul]

So... what you're saying is... cops in New Orleans may be corrupt?

[Matt Welch]

I fixed the link....

[Jennifer]

Who is surprised by this? I saw uniformed cops looting stores on the television the day the flood first happened. And this one particularly dumb lady cop not ONLY had no qualms about openly looting in front of a phalanx of TV cameras, but when the journalist asked her what she was doing, she tried to say that the journalist must be a looter himself, else why was he in the store?

[matt]

Jennifer,

That video was hilarious....laughed my ass of when I saw it.

[wayne]

crooked cops. In New Orleans? I am shocked, shocked I say.

Maybe they just don't pay those cops enough? Maybe a little supplemental income helps their lifestyle?

And that journalist WAS looting all those images of cops looting DVD players. The DVD players are just gadgets, destined to break in a year or two. But those images are burned into our psyches, and won't soon fade... who is the greater criminal?

Maybe I should be a defense attorney...

[Solitudinarian]

Hey now, ease off the NOLA PD - their graft income has dropped dramatically over the past few weeks.

[Geezer]

Now you know why they don't shoot looters in NO.

[wayne]

"Now you know why they don't shoot looters in NO."

Now, that is pretty funny.

[ralphus]

I don't buy the "they flooded the 9th Ward on purpose" conspiracy theories, but when this type of shit is what you expect from your city officials you can see how ideas like that gain traction.

Most people will attribute the hopefully better response to Rita to lessons learned from Katrina. The biggest difference really will be that Rita is going to hit a state where the rule of law isn't just an ironic in-joke.

[Larry A]

Perhaps the thin blue line is taking what's there because they aren't getting a cut of the new stuff being shipped in, like the chief administrative officer earlier reported.

What I'm starting to wonder is, where's the coverage of the other areas Katrina hit?

[avoice]

big surprise, Just like the FDNY massive looting on 9/11 and afterwards as well as FDNY looting everytime they go into your home on a call. This is common knowledge.

[ed]

"To Serve, Protect, and Lift Your Bling."

[mediageek]

What are you, some kind of a sexist? I just love all those girlie-cops with their badges and guns, and sulky pouting lips.

Heh. The woman I dated in college hated female cops on account of they were more likely to give her a speeding ticket.

[Darnell the smell]

big surprise, Just like the FDNY massive looting on 9/11 and afterwards as well as FDNY looting everytime they go into your home on a call. This is common knowledge.

Comment by: avoice at September 23, 2005 04:02 PM

Are you being sarcastic? Sometimes it's hard to read sarcasm online, but I've never heard that so I assumed it was sarcasm.

[manta ray]

Of course the race of the looting cops is irrelevant
and must not be mentioned.

[wayne]

"Of course the race of the looting cops is irrelevant and must not be mentioned."

Manta,
You are not implying that these sworn officers of the law, who were merely acting to secure private property that might otherwise be damaged by a hurricane that was created by George W Bush for the sole purpose of bringing misery to poor Americans of African ancestry, that these sworn officers were Negros? Wait, let me read that again... yes, it does look like that is exactly what you are implying.

This accusation sounds like more of GWB's secret campaign to humiliate and embarrass people of color.

[Jennifer]

Of course the race of the looting cops is irrelevant and must not be mentioned.

Actually, for me it was "The race of the looting cops is irrelevant and so there's no reason it needs to be mentioned."

Other irrelevant details not mentioned: the religion of the looting cops, the method the looting cops used to carry away their loot, and the name of the boy I had my first date with.

[mediageek]

Of course the race of the looting cops is irrelevant and must not be mentioned.

You mean pig?

Oops. There it is, I mentioned it.

[AMELIA]

SHAME SHAME SHAME YOU ROTTEN CROOKED COPS. GOD IS WATCHING YOU AND I PRAY THAT THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DO SOME THING TO THEM IN THE NAME OF GOD.
STEALING FROM THE PEOPLE TO MAKE YOURSELF DISHONEST. I WILL NEVER GO THERE AND HAVE ANY RESPECT FOR THE CROOKED COPS. GO TO HELL WITH YOUR LEADER SATAN AND DWELL IN THE BURNING PITS
MY GOD WILL SEE TO IT THAT THEY PAY FR WHAT THEY DID.