OK, this is getting really bad.

[unixronin]

interdictor reports that New Orleans police have been joining the looters, and the remaining honest cops are holed up under siege in their precincts and taking automatic-weapons fire.

The Big Easy is falling apart ... what's left of it.

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Update:

Confirmation from the Times-Picayune, with photos, here.  This PDF page has a front-page photo of uniformed New Orleans cops leaving Wal-Mart with an armful of DVDs and what looks like maybe a copy of Windows XP.

This is despicable.  To say "We don't have the power to stop it" is one thing.  But to JOIN THE LOOTERS?!?

Comments

[koyote.livejournal.com]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. This is what the Guard is FOR!!!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

They're on the way. 3,500 Guardsmen have been sent to NOLA specifically to quell the looting.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

There are still National Guardsmen in the country?

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Fortunately.

There's 1600 mobilized in Mississippi right now for disaster relief, and Alabama's sending two battalions of theirs to Mississipi to help.

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

There was video on the news last night showing the guard already in New Orleans.

[dr-nebula.livejournal.com]

I know if I was in NO right now - I'd be forming up neighborhood militia to halt the insanity at least on a local level.

I despise looters - esp. when they put hospitals under seige (go read some other posts).

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

You and me both.

(Lemme guess ..... they're after the drugs?)

[dr-nebula.livejournal.com]

Most likely. To threaten staff and patients is beyond redemption.

Now those bastards I wouldn't hesistate air conditioning their drug-crazed brain pans.

[sunruner.livejournal.com]

Um... is there proof that that police officer didn't just take those back from a looter? I didn't read anything in the skim I did of the article or see anything in the picture to say that he is actually stealing these items.
Just my two cents. I know how some journalists enjoy stirring up trouble.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

There is widespread documentation of looting by New Orleans police, as well as eyewitness accounts by New Orleans bloggers.

[nephthys510.livejournal.com]

It's official.

I hate everyone.

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Eh. Wasn't that long ago they were the most corrupt cops in the country. So no real surprise.